EDITH CAVELL 



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EDMUND 



ting up and printing on the train a 

 little news sheet, The Grand Trunk 

 Herald. He learnt the elements 

 of telegraph operating, and shortly 

 after began to invent a remarkable 

 series of improvements on the then 

 crude methods of electrical trans- 

 mission which revolutionised tele- 

 graphy throughout the world. The 

 automatic repeater, the quadruplex 

 and printing telegraph, and the sex- 

 tuplex method of transmission fol- 

 lowed in rapid succession. 



While still a young man he set 

 up an establishment largely de- 

 voted to experimental work in all 

 branches of science. Here he 

 brought to perfection the phono- 

 graph, the forerunner of the 

 modern gramophone, the kineto- 

 scope, out of which developed the 

 cinematograph, and many other 

 inventions which were practically 

 fundamental. More than 900 

 patents have been granted to him 

 for his inventions, and he has been 

 honoured by innumerable scientific 

 bodies and universities. During 

 the Great War he designed benzol 

 and carbonic-acid-producing plants 

 on a large scale. 



The range of Edison's inventions 

 is such that he has left his mark on 

 nearly every branch of science. 

 Many of them, as the kineto- 

 scope and phonograph, have re- 

 sulted in the creation of entirely 

 new industries and methods of 

 thought and news distribution, 

 while his improvements in tele- 

 graphic methods of communica- 

 tion may be compared with those 

 of wireless due to Marconi. See 

 Cinematography ; Phonograph ; 

 Telegraph ; consult also Lives, 

 E. C. Kenyon, 1896 ; -F. A. Jones, 

 1907; F. L. Dyer and T. C. 

 Martin, 1910. 



Edith Cavell. Mt. of Canada. 

 A peak of the Rocky Mts., it is situ- 

 ated i n Al berta, close to the border of 

 British Columbia, 14m. S. of Jasper 

 on the G.T.P. Rly It is about 

 11,000 ft. high, and was named 

 after Nurse Edith Cavell (q.v.). 



Editor (Lat. edere, to produce). 

 One who controls the production 

 and contents of a newspaper, book, 

 or magazine. On daily newspapers 

 his personality and political and 

 business acumen and knowledge 

 of men and affairs are more vital 

 than literary facility, the necessity 

 of his close attention to detail 

 being obviated by subdivision of 

 labour. ' In book and magazine 

 production he needs special quali- 

 fications according tp the nature of 

 the work on which he is engaged. 

 In all cases practical knowledge of 

 the various processes connected 

 with printing, illustration, etc., 

 is essential. See Journalism ; 

 Newspaper. 



Edmonton. Urban district of 

 Middlesex, England. It stands 

 near the New and Lea rivers, 2 m. 

 N. of Tottenham by the G.E.R. 

 and 2 m. 8. of Enfield. It 

 has some timber trade on the Lea, 

 and the place is associated with 



Cowper and Keats. Charles and East Anglia in 855. Captured~by 

 Mary Lamb lie buried in the parish the Danes on their invasion in 870 



Edmund OREADMUND (841-70). 

 Saint and king of East Anglia. 

 Late legends describe him as the 

 son of Alkmund, king of the 

 Saxons, and state that he was born 

 at Nuremberg and adopted by 

 Off a, whom he succeeded as king of 



churchyard. The National Aircraft 

 Engine Factory built here during 

 the Great War on a site of 14 acres, 

 at a cost of 133,000, was pur- 

 chased by a motor firm in 1919. 

 One member is returned to Parlia- 

 ment. Pop. 64,797. 



Edmonton. Capital of Alberta, 

 Canada. It stands on a high table- 

 land overlooking the N. bank of 

 the North Saskatchewan river. 793 



and refusing to give up Christian- 

 ity, he was beheaded at Hoxne, 

 Suffolk. His body was removed 

 in the 9th century to Bury (now 

 known as Bury St. Edmunds), 

 where the famous shrine was erected. 

 He was held in great veneration as 

 a saint, many English churches 

 are dedicated to him, and his 

 festival is kept on Nov. 20. See 

 Life, J. B. Mackinlay, 1893. 



Edmund (c. 

 I 922-46). King of 

 the English. The 

 son of Edward the 

 Elder and grand- 

 son of Alfred the 

 I Great, he suc- 

 ceeded his half- 

 brother Atheist an 

 in 940. He fought 

 against the Danes 

 in the north, the 

 result being a di- 

 vision of the king- 

 dom. This did not 

 last long, as Ed- 

 mund crushed the 

 Danes in Mercia. 



Edmonton, Canada. View oi Alberta University, founded in 1906 ; above, 

 the Parliament buildings of the province of Alberta 



m. W. of Winnipeg. Served by the and was again ruler of the whole 

 Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk land. He subdued Cumbria in 

 Pacific, and Canadian Northern 945 and bestowed it on Malcolm, 

 Rlys., the city has grown rapidly king of Scotland, on condition 

 in recent years. Edmonton's that he should be his " fellow- 

 public buildings are substantially worker by sea and land." He 

 built and the churches have some was mortally stabbed by an but- 

 architectural merit ; the suburbs law at Pucklechurch, Gloucester- 

 are extensive. There are large shire. May 26, 946, and was buried 

 meat-packing plants, saw-mills, etc. at Glastonbury. Edmund's mili- 

 The Hudson's Bay Co. established tary victories and reforms in church 

 a post early in the 19th century, and state gained him the name of 

 and it is largely to the fur trade the Deed-doer and the Magnificent, 

 that the city owes its prosperity. His two sons, Edwy and Edgar, 

 Pop. 61,045. See Alberta. became kings after him. 



