INVENTOR PASSES
— By Telegraph—
end follows collapse due : to restriction , of. diet FAMILY AT BEDSIDE
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Rec. Oct, 18, 11 p.m. WEST ORANGE (N.Y.) Sun. Thomas A. Edison died this morning at 3.45 a.m., aged '84 years. He leaves a widow and six child- ; ren who, with his personal physician and two nurses, were at his bedside when the ,end came. f ; Dr. Howe said tbsrtPMr. Edison's ; collapse was directly traceable to his curtailment of his diet in an effort to relieve gastric ulcers. He was also suffering from diabetes, Bright's disease and eiiremic poisoning. Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1874. After an adventurous .boyhood he became a telegraph operator, and had his attention direeted to electrical problems. He established himself in New York in 1869, and invented an improved printing telegraph. In 1876 he set up an elaborate laboratory and factory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, from which place he has sent out many clever and some startling in- ' ventions, including a system of dup- . lex telegraphy, afterwards improved into quadruplex and sextuplex transmission, his phonograph, and a method - of preparing carbon filaments for the electric lamp.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 October 1931, Page 3
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