WHAT EDISON HAS DONE.
mXhamborsfl Journal, ; "From 1669 to the present time Edison ha. filed more; th-in one thousand four hun- *£-■, a PP* w . at «MM» for patents : and, m addition, over- one thousand five hundred other, inventions aro embraced m one and twenty caveats filed by him^dimrig theso years. ! These and some vothei- inventions are also covered by one thousand: two hurfdrod and thirty-nine patents- issued to him by foreitrn Governments. ' ' ''
When onn considers the practical yalne of Edison's, inventions as a world asset the tremendous force of his personality, is, apparent, for it has been ona of the most potent factors In bringing into existence many • entirely new arts and industries, and m contributing very largely to others, all of whifch are now oapitalised m .''America at seven thousand million' dollars, earning annually oyer a thousand million dollars, and giving employment to an arriiy of more than sis hundred thousand people. "Not that, Edison has brought thee* art* and industries to their present mag* nificent proportions j' but he ii» the father of a number of them;, and as to some of the others, it was the magic of hie touch that helped to make them practicable;"
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)
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