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HOW EDISON CELEBRATED BIRTHDAY. FRESH RUBBER EXPERIMENTS. (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Aust. and N.Z. Press -.sail.) (Received February 13, 1 a.m.)' NEW* YORK, Feb. 11. Mr! Thosi. Edison, the world-famed inventor, celebrated his eighty-first birthday at Fort Myers (Florida) conducting experiments in search of a rubber-bearing indigenous plant, not to supplant tropical rubber but to be useful in the event of emergency.
[Mr. Edison, who was born in Ohio, claims Dutch descent on father’s side, Scotch on mother’s. He became a telegraph operator; superintendent of the Law Gold Indicator Co., 1869-73; invented telegraph systems for quadruplex and sextuplex telegraphic transmission, the carbon telephone transmitter, the microtasiimeter for detection of small variations in temperature, the mega''ono for amplifying sounds, electric j. an, the incandescent electric lamp, (decfi: ‘vM, heat and power systems a. J e.ectric railway, moving pictures, phonograph, alkaline storage battery, etc.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10509, 13 February 1928, Page 2
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