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INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853,
HEAD OFFICE-LONDON,
Fald-Up Capital
Reserve Pand.....
..$10.000 4,000,000
BANKING CORPORATION.
NOVEMBER
13, 1931.
The Incandescent Lamp, the employment of a steam engine. But from this time onward his he
But it may be said that whatever
touched-Portland career was one of almost unbroken plate glass, the microtaximeter for cemont, success. Eager to exploit his own the detection of minute variations Inventions, he established a factory in temperature, or flying machines in Newark, New Jersey, with ...............0,000, CORPORATION LTDİ
small body of men, but a few years he Improved for the use of the
he was obliged to move to after him.
or are to come, PRO came Park
and afterwards to (Incorporated in England, 1920.) Orange Grove, taking with him on a great seientific philosopher in the It cannot be claimed that he was ench occasion a band of disciples senae that Kelvin was. His view who were hardly less enthusiastic, of 25,000,0000,
and hardly less enduring, than Daconian in its insistence on in- 180.000 himself
Authorised Capital ...... Issued and Faily Paid-op ...................... £9,000,00
Starting
£0.804,000 Allver
$10,000,000
Reserve Liablilty of Proprietors.. 3,000,000 Reserva Liability of Proprietom.UR9,000,09
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THE HO HONG BANK,
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WEST LONDON BRANCH. 14-18, Cockapur Sireet, London, A.W.1.
Colomblo, Hongkong. Madres, Singapore.
the world.
Shanghai,
transaerd. "Loans and overdraft granted on
mon who
science Was thoroughly
utility as object, ment,
and the pro
Ilis peralatency in admirably the ahown in his work in connexion
the
and
with the Incandescent electria aing one have to thankel
lament, when a number of finan-
General Exchange and Danking Business approved security. Current and Fixed Deposit Recount opened.
BAVINGS BANK ACCOUNTS-Inter the lamp was allowed at rates which may be caused on myplienta.
A
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the aclf-made Thomas Alva Edison lamp. He spent forty thousand for being able to live in a world dollars in trying to find a suitable made
made more
by this comfortable BRANCHER :-Bombay, Calcutta, Calicut for the discovery of a plientions of electricity to which placed enormous sums at his genius, One can hardly imagine
civilisation to-day without the substance which would emit
ahe devoted hla industry and inven- AGENCIES:—in all the principal towns of bright light in vneamised glass tive akill.
bulb by the aid of electricity.
On October 21. 1879, after he has spent four days and nights consecutively in the laboratory, in December of acomplished fact: bis first public exhibition of che tric lighting. At the Paris Elec tricni Exposition of 1881 he won fire gold medals and n diploma of
While he was at work an! Phonour. English physicial, Joseph Wilson Swan, had been engaged on the same problem, and he was certala- by far ahead, in point of time, of EDISON'S LIFE AND the American inventor in realising
TRAVELLERS CHEQUES ISSUED. isang travelling Homeward ar rommended to obtain a Letter of Credit From
om
rip, which can be cashest through the Purser
of any, and G. or B. I. R. N. Her of at anyof the Wrenches of the Corporation.
W. J. WADDINGTON,
Acting GF,
WORK.
elec-
His capacity for work was enor spent regularly in the laboratory moue, Sixteen hours a day were where he smoked innumerable cigars while he could labour, if necessary, sixty hours at a streich. le rarely slept for more than four hours a night, yet he got from his brief rest a sufficient renewal of his vital forces.
His advice to young people who?
to avold templation was to wished to get a job and work so hard at it that temptation could not exist for them. He was a lifelong lento- taler. Smoking and chewing the difficulties to be overcome. For tobacco were his only dis a considerable perind there was rivalry between the two inventors, but ultimately it was arranged that their patents should be worked to
an cerme which will be conted on applHARDSHIPS OF EARLY DAYS. gether.
Hongkong, 8th May, 198s.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANE
The Business of the above Bank in es ducted by the HONGKONG AND EHANDKA BANKING CORPORATION. Boles may be Jobtained on application.
FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGILA | BANKING CORPORATION.
Y. M. GRAYRIEN,
Chief Manager. Howgkong, 10th July, 1985.
ROMANCE OF FIRST PHONOGRAPH.
When Thomas
n
Many honours were upon him, but those that he valued most were the three degrees of the French Legion of Honour and the Albert Gold Medal awarded to him by the British Society of Arts.
The Phonograph,
Another invention, with which
The Rubber Problem, the name of Edison is indissolubly associated is the phonograph. "I In 1928 he received the highest was singing to the mouthpiece of honours his country could give telephone," he said, "when the him. Congress voting him a kold Alva Edison vibration of the votre sent the fine medal. A year later his invention (whose death took place inst month steel point into my finger. That of the incandescent lamp was rom- was born there was light, ne telephone, no tape mathe actions of the point over the
no electric set me thinking. If I could record memorated on a postage stamp
His last years were devoted to chine, uo electric tramway. cinematograph. A comparison of reason why the thing would not mented with a great
name Horface afterwards, I saw the aludy of rubber. He
He experi that day with ours gives the mea-talk.
variety of sure of his services to mankind.,
tried the expe
experiment first plants in his summer home, in or He
en a slip of telegraph paper, and der to discover one suited to the came of sturdy Dutch stock. found that the point made His great-grandfather, a HEAD OFFICE: 55, Wall Strees banker, took sides with the Mother-Halloo halloot into the mouth. He failed to reach a satisfactory an Southern States of the Union from a New York
Yark alphabet. I shouted the wordin
oris which rubber could be obtained. land in the War of Independence. involto Nova Scotia: hetect pointhe paper back over the involved in a Canadian rebellion, Halloo! hallou! in return.
point, and heard a fuint found found refuge on the American side The phonograph, or sound-record of the border, after a tramp of 180er. is the result of the pricking of miles
without food or sleep, and settled
in the Ohio village of Milan. There the famous inventor was
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Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profts
ARGENTINE DELGIUM 8,400.000 HAZIL 4,000,000 CHILE CHINA
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Every description of Banking and Exchanges | ITALY business transacted.
TAN ENG HOOL
Manager.
U.S.$224,554,29
Branches in
LONDON MEXICO
PANAMA PENU PHILIPPINE
ISLAND
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SETTLEMENTS
URUGUAY
VENEZUELA
ncerite."
solution at the problem.
علوم
In the summer of 1929 he decid-) ed to adopt a "successor," for whose scientific education he pro- mised to pay. From forty-nine candidates-one from each State- he selected, with the help of a com- mittee, which included Mr. Henry Ford and
and Colonel Lindbergh, Wil bur Huston, aged 16. Age was al- realy telling upon Edison's extra-
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His assistanta laughed at the barn on February 11, 1847. The idea of building a machine that modest amount of education he re-uld talk, het Edison was undis- ceived was given by his mother, mayed, and wrestled night and day and when he was twelve he began when the problems of use At ordinary vitality, however, and the work us a
egaliscovery to practical a seller of fruit und news-
shape. At
of selection proved papers on the Grand Trunk Rail-last he called on a frient in the process
severe strain on his atrength. road from Detroit to Port Huron.ice of the "Scientiae American," Between trains he read omniver-which
with a quaintlooking instrument
His long, active career did not Commercial and Travellers' Leously in the Detroit Library, and
emitted the wonderful terminate until July of this year, tors of Credit, Travellers' Choques when by his business activity he sounds, "Good morning! What do when he decided to go into retire- Bills of Exchange and Cable was making eight dollars a day he you think of the phonographment. ***.*** | Transfers bought and sold. Cur established and printed a little Fe had succeeded; the phonographi BANK OF CHINA. rent accounts and Savings Bank newspaper and set up a laboratory was born!
accounts opened and Fixed De in the baggage van of the train.
But between the original instru- Reorganised October 26. 1428, under special eles taken at rates that may be as posits in local and foreign curren-
ment-now to be seen in the South, A Disaster.
Kensington Museum--and the pers INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE DANK certained on application to the
feet machine, which has recorded. But one day the car caught fire, for posterity the tragic tones of ..$25,000,000.00 Bank. 24.710.000.00 We
able
and Edison, with his printing out-Irving or the golden offer out and chemical apparatus, was Caruso,
notea of 8,920.803.8!
Customers the services of the lung out at the next station, and gulf. bridged only by the genius there was an immense Branches of the Internationa Banking Corporation in San Fran made permanently dent by the of Edison,
vigorous ear-cuffs of the enraged claco, and Spain and also of conductor. Having saved the life after month in making the instru It is said that he spent month Owing to our numeroas branches in Chins (France) S.A., in Paris and Nice taught telegraphy by the father, Intelligible."."
National City Bank of New Yor of a station master's child, he was ment produce a correct "s" or an And year After F. McD. COURTNEY,
and he was shortly able to obtain year was spent in an attempt to a position as operator on the line.
charter of The National Government ne na
Bubscribed Capital
Tald-Up Capital
Reserve Fonde
HEAD OFFICE: SHANCIAL
HONGKONG BRANCH,
4, Queen's Road Central
and large connections in the important mim. merela centres of the world, we am able to ertend to our cilents special fell for domestic and foreign tanking and exchange
We lau handle the lease of Bonda and other Pubile Funits of the Chase Government bath at home and abrumd.
RNOU J. CHEN.
Munozee.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD. Established 1918.
HEAD OFFICE: 10, Des Voeux Road, Central,
HONGKONG, Capital & Surplus over H$8,000,000 Total Resources over $30,000,000 Every description of Banking and Exchange business transact- ed.
are alno
Manager,
Hongkong, 20th February, 1931. For some years, he travelled atombine the sounds of the phono
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL
MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V. (Netherlands Trading Society.)
DANKETS.
ESTABLISHED 1814.
Hongkong Offee: 11, Queen's Road, Castra Authorised Capital... Gulden 150.000,009.
Pald-Up Capital
Reserve Fund
{£12,500,000. Guliders 80,000,000.
(0,409,170 .Collders 45,015,000.
(5.88€,687
Seat D-AMHTERÅTES"
45 16t
with the movements of the telegraphic, railway.
news einematograph so that we might ilper wor
work
in Canada and the have talking and singing pictures. United States, and on many oe. His work in the perfection of the casions his inventive gealus dis- cinematograph is known all over played itself in devices for saving the world, nor is it work. He was MET
necessary here Mtill in
his teens to
to do more than refer to his car- when he overcame the difficulty bon transmitter, by which he over- caused by a broken telegraph cable came the faintness of Bell's tele- across a river by imitating the phone and eliminated the extrane alphabet of the
on the ons code the Morse
sounds, whistle of a railway engine.
Edison took out more than In 1871 he migrated from Boston thousand patents, and it would be to Now York, taking with him, impossible here to enumerate all among other ideas, the germ of his his devices and inventions. Ever duplex and multiplex telegraph. a practical man, he kept before his
fe became
associated with the eyes the commercial possibilities Gold Reporting Company (the ob- of all he undertook. and for chofco ject of which was to transmit the preferred inventions Bandons price of gold
that Hombar. Calcas Cherbor
of gold to hrokera and money.
ey- useful in tene rather than Jeddah, Djember, Diokjakarta changers), and while acting as
Often too
Kastern Head Offes:-BATAVIA,
Ac-DRANCHES-Bonderin
Current and Fixed Deposit counts in local and foreign cur rencies opened for effents.
Savings Account and Safe De- posit Boxes.
Branches and Agencies all over} the world. .
KAN TONG PO,
Chief Manager.
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Sale Agents for Hongkong & §. China
DODWELL & CO., LTD. Hongkong..........Tel. 28021.
Makamer. Medan. Padang
Rangoon. ILotter
were
in muc”
in war.
was expected of
The Hague, Robe. Kott-Rad superintendent he brought out his him. The announcement that he Palembang, Pekalongan, Pean carliest successful invention, the, and discovered a new storage bat- telegraph for stock qua-tery" was hailed with extravagant So valuable were his many praise, to
by extrava be succeeded by
was found was offered forty thousand dollars that he had only partially solved
Pontianak,
Am.* Semarang, Shanghal Sibolga (Bomains), Piagapers
Terni, Tilinifay and Walter
Boarabala, 504rakarts (Boley to
the Company that he kant disgust when it se
* Thess offices have unte deposti boccan in in for the entire lot. Edison accept the problem which had long worri-
Lid.
Landon Bankara:--Nation Provincial Ded, and so little versed in basiness ed electrical railway engineers, of was he that he did not know what obtaining electrical force direct to do with the cheque when he re-from the oxygen and carbon, with- celved It.
out the heating process requiring
Correspondents all over the world,
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Konekone, 18th August, 1980.
Manerer
THE BANK OF CANTON
LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED (11),
Head Office:-Hongkong.
Authorised Capital
Paid-Up "Fund
Reserve Fund
BRANCHER unau
$11,000,00
1,446,00
1,000,00
Canton, Shanghai, Bankow Swaton
Bangkok, New York, nad Bas Fras
laco
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LOOK POONG BIAN,
Chief, MamNESE Hongkong, 19th March, 1981,
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