Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-02-11 | Page 2 | Edison, 60, will "Play a While"

EDISON, 60, WILL . "PLAY A WHILE" On His Birthday Anniversary Anniver-sary Inventor "KnocKs Off WorK" and Begins! ' Experiments for Himself, j i NEW YORK. Feb. 11 Thomas Edison. J the Inventor, is 6ft years old today. In an Interview yesterday he said H was now time for him to "knock off work" and ; play a while. i "For forty-five years I have been mak- I ing experiments with electricity," said Edison, "but all those years I have been turning these experiments to commercial ; value so fast that I have not had a chance ' to see how much I can find out about it. But from tomorrow I am going to give up , the commercial end of H and work in my ; laboratory purely as a scientist. That will be the pleasure I have long promised myrelf. , "Is It possible to foretell what the nert great step in the application of electricity to the mechanics of present day life will be?" Edison was asked. "I would be a daring man to venture a prediction." he answered. "We are all busy collecting data, we Investigators, and may be in ion years we wiU begin to suspect something." i