WORLD'S DEBT TO EDISON
MEMORIAL MEDAL PLANNED. A joint resolution authorising the secretary of the United States Treasury to strike a gold medal in commemoration of the achievements of Thomas A. Edison has been adopted, by the House of Representatives, records .the Talking Machine World (New Y r ork). Duplicate medals in bronze would be made and sold in whatever quantities might be required. The House Committee cn coinage, weights, and measures estimated the monetary value of industries entirely based on the inventions of Edison, er materially stimulated by his inventions, at 15,599,000,000 dollars, distributed as follows: — Motion pictures 1,250,000,000 Telephones 1,000,000,000 Electric railways . 6,500,000,000 Electric lighting 5,000,000,000 Electric supplies 857,000,000 Fixtures .. 37,000,000 Phonographs 105,000,000 Car shops 109,000,000 Dynamos and motors .... 100,000,000 Batteries 5,000)000 Concrete 271,000,900 Telegraph -.... 350,000,000 Wireless telegraph 15,000,000
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1928, Page 2
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