THE GREAT INVENTOR

Evening Post, Issue 2, 2 July 1932, Page 19

THE GREAT INVENTOR

, The* patents, gianted to Edison, at Wash|ngton,-.;from fi rs t to last number ed 1099,;aridv'tBpje m fordigA- «ountr;ps, together. JviJ^aJL sorts, of applications,! bring.,up the.vjgiiro to something like 3000,? so, one learns from "Thomis A Edisdn,',f .a. biography of tho great inventotbyill. Tievelyan Miller, liL D The ;',which, 'has been created from Ai^'^enius in property values in the IfnitedT^tates alono is said to e\ ceed ;v£5toO;000,opo, employing over a million people:"'Theso staggering figures aro but-:a'ivslight indication of the-ex-traordinary-'activities of this remark able /ma,n,,.Jcwho,, . hid he lrvcd in tho Da'rkVAgKa^-or'iet On in early America, would^havffbeen burned for witchcraft.

Edisoii' :is./just the sort of man Anverica jade-res, .and his latest 'biographer ;'J)j. : Miller simply revels m telling ttip amazing story "His vie tories■ arft-ithose of a.'plain American boy,'y,who.leaves a rich heritage of inspifatioiiy courage,' and character to the youth;: of ;.all>;>nations md races . .

Blot out,all.that Edison has given to the -qtorld, ivith all tho wealth the in ventors ii^ave.created, and every nation in the world would fall. Poverty and distress, famine, and panic, arid pestilence.; would; sweep the earth." Dr. Miller fiitds the secret of' Edison's power in Athe fact that he remained the eternal bpy, with the power of fascinating others in' his interests.