1922 - An Important Year for Stanford Closson

The year 1922 was an important one for Stanford Closson. Not only did he start graduate school at Boston University, where he eventually studied to be a minister, but Boston is where he met his future wife, Mary Leah Yant. General Electric had a big year, too. Thomas Edison visited for the last time in 1922, important technologies were invented, and in December, the city had a major fire that destroyed part of the downtown area.

Below is a photograph of Thomas Edison and William D. Coolidge, who, according to the Edison Tech Center website,

"was one of the most important innovators of the 20th century in his field. Coolidge developed the ductile tungsten filament used in lightbulbs, fluorescent lamps, car ignitions and vacuum tubes. He worked on transformers and cathode ray tubes, high vacuum tubes and he was one of the early leaders at the General Electric Research Lab. He had a remarkable understanding of physics and made improvements to many technologies."


I'm looking forward to starting Stanford's 1922 diary in just five days! I hope you will join me.