"Magnetic iron-ore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... outcome of the problem which, in 1900, he undertook to solve, it will be interesting to review his mental attitude at that period. It has already been noted at the end of a previous chapter that on closing the magnetic iron-ore concentrating plant at Edison, New Jersey, he resolved to work on a new type of storage battery. It was about this time that, in the course of a conversation with Mr. R. H. Beach, then of the street-railway department of the General Electric Company, he said: "Beach, I don't ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin |
