EDISON’S GREAT WORK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 15, 15 May 1912, Page 4

EDISON’S GREAT WORK.

One of Mr Edison’s assistants, writing in “Chambers’ Journal”, says that from ISO!) to tho present time, Edison lias tiled more than one thousand four hundred applications for patents ; j and, in addition, over one thousand i live hundred other inventions are em- ■ braced in one bundled and twenty j caveats lilt'd by him during these | years. These and some other invenj tin ns are also covered by one thousand I two hundred and thirty-nine patents issued to him by foreign Governments, j When one considers the practical value of Edison’s inventions as a world asset the tremendous force of his personality is apparent, for it has been one of the most potent factors in bringing 1 into existence many entirely new arts j and industries, and in contributing j very largely to others, all of which | arc now capitalised in America at seven thousand million dollars, carn- | lag annually over a thousand million

dollars, and giving employment to an iinny of more than six hundred thousand people. Not that Edison has brought these arts and industries to their present magnificent proportions'; hut he is the father of a number of them ; and as to some of the others, it was the magic of his touch that helped to make them practicable.