Imagineering (1942)

[Russ McClay]

>From the article:

I had always assumed that someone at Disney had coined the term
"Imagineering," until I came across an article from the May 2, 1947
Portsmouth Times (Portsmouth, Ohio) titled, "Black Light Magic." The
article describes the work of Arthur C. Radebaugh and the caption to the
picture above uses the term "Imagineering."

After doing some further research the earliest mention of the word I was
able to find was in an Alabama newspaper from 1942. The image below is
from the 1947 Portsmouth Times article about Radebaugh.

And a user comments:

The Oxford English Dictionary gives 1944 (from an advertisment in the Wall
Street Journal 26 June) as the earliest date for this word. Write to them
and prove them wrong!

The article:
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http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/05/word-origins-imagineering-1947.html

Russ

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