WHEN EDISON WAGERED
Edison proved his genius as an inventor and made his first bid for fame tfhen he was a. telegraph boy. They were much annoyed by cockroches getting into the tin cats in which the boys carried their lunches. Various methods of getting iid of them were tried, but without success, and then Edison made a bet that he would exterminate the foe. The next day the dinner*cans were piled in a heap, and the wissard surrounded them with a circle of tin-foil ribbon about an inch wide. About away he placed a similar circle, both ribbons being upright, and then connected them v with a battery. Along came the cockroaches. To surmount the obstacle they had to place their hind legs on the outer ribbon and their forelegs on the inner one. The moment they did so the circuit was complete and they toppled over dead. Edison's success made'him talked about, and was hfs real 'start as an investor. ' *
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 January 1917, Page 2
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