EDISON'S BIRTHDAY DINNER.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 98, 20 December 1904, Page 2

EDISON'S BIRTHDAY DINNER.

From the Banquet Table in New York Wlaard Sent Messages. to Europe. ; A dinner was given at the Waldorf- . Astoria recently In honor of the twenty- | fifth anniversary of the introduction of the incandescent electric light and the fifty-seventh anniversary of the birth of Thomas A. Edison. Mr. Edison was the guest of honor. One end of the Commercial- Cable company's cable was taken into the grand ballroom of the hotel, and connected to the table at which the Inventor was seated. By means of the old Quadruple instrument which Mr. Edison used many years ago when he was a telegraph operator,: and which had been in the museum of the Western Union Telegraph company for a long time, he sent a message across the ocean to Marconi. Messages to all of the great scientists in both America and Europe were sent from the room where the dinner was held. The deed of trust of the EJdlson Medal association was presented at the dinner. The association has raised a fund, the income of which will be applied annually to the striking of a medal to be presented to the student in electrical engineering in the United States or Canada whose thesis or recorded research shall be deemed most worthy. The Institute of Electrical Engineers win act as trustee.