THE NOBEL PRIZES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2613, 8 November 1915, Page 3

THE NOBEL PRIZES

SOME OF THE AWARDS. By Telwrapli—Press Association—OopyrltfM (lice. November 7, 3.30 p.m.) _ Copephagon, November 6. Hie Nobel Prizes have been awarded as follows: —Physics: Mr. T. A. Edison and Nikola Tesla. Literature: ■ Rollaud Pontoppidan 2,, "! nt ' Lund Heidenstam. Chemistry: Svcdberg. [Mr. T. A. Edison, electrician, was born at .Milan, 0., on February 11, ,184/. _ He received some instruction from his mother. At twelve years of age lie became newsboy on tho .Grand Trunk Railway, Inter learned telegraphy, and worked as an operator at various places in the United States and Canada. Ho has invented many telegraphic appliances, including automatic repeater, quadruplex telegraph, printing telegraph, etc., the carbon telephone transmitter, the microtasimeter for detection of small changes in porature; the megaphone, the phonograph, the incandescent lamp; the kinetoscope, kinetograph, kmetophono, and alkaline storage battery. He has secured patents for more than 900 inventions.

Nikola Tesla was born at Snuljau, Lika, and is the son of a Greek clergyHe spent about 14 years at ?, co "cge ; and graduated in mathematics, physics, and mechanics. Ho began business as an electrician at Budapest, where he made his first invention a telephone repeater—and conceived tho idea of his rotating magnetic field. Since 1884 ho has been a resident of the United States. He is the inventor and discoverer of the system of arc lighting; alternating current power transmission; generators of high frequency currents, and a great numbers of other electrical matters.]