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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1240, 23 September 1911, Page 12

One of the most remarkable men in tho world, Mr. Thomas Alva Edison, whoso inventions havo saved the world many millions of money, and probably millions of years of time, recently landed in England. Mr. Edison is 6-1 years old, and stone deaf, but ho may yet have in storo inventions which will revolutionise practical scicnce. Mr. Edison found tho phonograph when the vibrating needle of a telephone. pierced his finger. Ho made incandescent lights to "spite" au impatient gas tympany which cut. off his light because, in the stress of nil invention, he hnd forgotten their bill. Animated picture inventions led to tho talking picture. He is tho most curious man in the world. Anything to him is a possible field of invention, nnd in the course of his inquiries into the nature of things he has experimented in housing, agricultural, fertilising, and a hundred and ono other subjects—usually finding some way to "do it better/'