Edison Joking His Friends.
Mr Edison is fond of joking: with his intimate friends. In the presence of a company of these one day at Menlo Park, and, just as they were drawing on their great coats preparatory to departure, Mr Edison astounded the party by gravely announcing as follows : ' Gentlemen, I am now about to tell you something that will astonish all the electricians in the world. lam prepared to send a current of electricity from here to Philadelphia without any wire.' Down came the great coat.s in a hurry. ' Whj, Al (Edison's second namp is Alva, and many of his friends call him Al), that's impossible,' said a friend, who was an old telegraph operator. 'Oh, no, , answered Edison ; 'ife can be done, and I know it; it is the result of a discovery.' ' How ?' inquired several at once. • Store it up in a condenser, and send ib there by express,' was the reply. 'Now, don't give it away to the newspaper men.' ' Ha, ha ! ho, ho ! just so ; you're right} said hie friends.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 305, 24 December 1891, Page 4 (Supplement)
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