TWO GREAT AMERICANS
FORD GIVES £1,000,000 FOR EDISON MUSEUM INVENTOR’S BIRTHDAY (Australian and N.Z . Press Association) NEW YORK. Monday. To mark the occasion of Mr. Thomas A. Edison’s eighty-second birthday (to-day), and the fiftieth anniversary of his invention of the incandescent lamp, Mr. Henry Ford h given £1,000,000 for the erection at Dearborn, Illinois, of a museum to house an Edisonian collection.
In a letter announcing his gift, Mr. Ford warmly praised his friend. He said the proposed museum was necessary as an inspiration to the youth of America.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 587, 13 February 1929, Page 9
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89TWO GREAT AMERICANS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 587, 13 February 1929, Page 9
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