T. A. EDISON DYING

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1931, Page 5

T. A. EDISON DYING

LAST FIGHT FOR LIFE. (United Press Association.—By Electrics Telegraph.—Gopyright.) NEW i YORK; October 17.. r A message from West Orange states; Although Mr Thomas A. Edison (whose illness was previously cabled on September 5) is'putting .up a tremendous fight for life, his -physicians tonight stated that they were afraid that the end was near. The .strength of the inventor’s heart is proving extraordinary. . FAMOUS INVENTOR. DEATH OF EDISON. ’ (Received this day at- 9.25 a.m) WEST ORANGE (New Jersey), Oct. 18 Thomas A. Edison, the famous inventor, died at 3.24 a.m. on Sunday, aged 84 years. ’ ’ •'>” A His wife, six children., personal physician and two nurses were at the bed. side when the end came. Dr. Hubert S. Howe, said the collapse was traceable directly to the curtailment of his diet to relieve gastric ulcers. Edison was' also suffering from diabetes, Brights disease and anemic poisoning, ; [T. A. Edison, West Orange, New Jersey, U.8.A., eminent American electrician and inventor; began life as a newsboy; invented - universal stock ticker, automatic telegraph system, also systems of duplex, triples, quadluplex, sexfuplex, and phonop.ex tele* graphic carimn trans* mitter used in telephones, eicotromoto* graph, phonograph, taximeter, incan. descent, lamp, . incandescent electric lighting moving picture or kmematograph megaphone, magnetic separators, machinery for . separating low-grade magnetic iron‘ ores, pouredconcrete house, alkaline, storage battery, and many other inventions now universally used.] , , '