SECRETS OF EDISON'S DEATH REVEALED
Received Sunday, 8.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. ; Tliomas Edison, wbose genius gave tlie world many "'boons, includingelectric ligM, apparently. w-a& experimenting witli uranium before. Ms ; death 16 years ago. Among the effects in a desk lo.cked since. his ; death and opened in cojnpection with the. ohservep.ee of his. hirth; 100. yea^s. ago, was a test tiijhp coptainipg uranium nitrate. Also found in the. • desk was a s.nyall ^olf of a substapqe believed to he a sample of- golden ro^ rubber. E,dison was wQiWhS on making ruhber from the golden rod ; weed when he died. It is. not known what he was doihg with uranium hut. it is hoped some clue might he fopnd in the voluminous sheaf of papers found in the dosk.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 February 1947, Page 5
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