Abstract :
Thomas A. Watson (F ´15), who assisted in the development of the telephone and who died December 14, 1934, delivered this address at the annual meeting of the AIEE in New York on May 18, 1915, upon the occasion of the presentation of the Edison Medal to Alexander Graham Bell. The address is given here as it originally was published in AIEE PROCEEDINGS, volume 34, number 8, August 1915, pages 1503–13.
