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absorbed he may mn become In his work Edison Is the typical Yankee the original concept of ot our Sam Shrewd calculating kindly honest tenacious of ot his rights und and nd ready rendy to light tight for tor them but hut never ag t tact fact he hll IK 19 the Ideal Idl 1 not only of ot American but of ot l people who nil all delight to honor him des of nt medals from set and decorations from crowned heads bends he lie hue bus more than thun he ho cares to count or In fact tact has hIlS kept a record of at nil of ot which goes to tl show that In III honoring this Isle modest and unassuming Inventor monarchs and men of or science o recognize that they thoy are also honoring themselves The ho main facts tacta In career cannot bo be repeated too often otton for tor the benefit of tho the rising generation and as ns Il II of ot the possibilities pOI of or one lifetime Only ani years old Edison was born horn at nt Milan 0 O Feb Feh F b 11 1817 he may well be pardoned for tor giving his years as nearly a 0 hundred since he has hns crammed to so o much Into Inlo them His fits I 1 mary education was wn received re more from Isle his mother who before tON her marriage was a 11 schoolteacher than In any school lI hool and nt at twelve year of ot ago age he vas Vail selling papers on the tho Grand Orand rand Trunk railway and owned n It newsstand a book store lilore and ond a 11 vegetable market An omnivorous reader he made ilia 11 I several attempts to devour whatever libraries ho came come across taking Indiscriminately to 10 and ami mathematics At I fifteen he printed In ht a baggage oar a 1 peper void Maid to be the first ever published on a II railroad train anti and although he was WIS editor typesetter plO devil and l vender ender paragraphs from Crom It were so 80 good as RII to be copied In such journals journal as aH the London Tines Times venture came to an on untimely end through an explosion of ot chemicals with which was experimenting and he hI was forthwith land Having learned learn telegraphy from a station illation agent whose child he bad had saved laved from being run over by n a locomotive he be secured a In n a Canadian telegraph of lice which he later Inter left leU In a hurry after aft r Raving having caused a collision through negligence owing to 10 hiss his absorption In an on experiment At seventeen n he lie was las In Memphis Tenn earning per lilt month und ami rations ns as a government operator and later on In Boston took out his Ural first patent As this did not yield him bun a pecuniary reward he formed the tho resolution he when he hi says ay work upon ullOn fin nn unless he had never to 10 satisfied himself beforehand that It would bo be a n success In the tho field for tor which It wile was Intended j I His Ills fortune may milT bo be said to have come to him soon Boon after atter ho he reached New York orl In 1871 1811 Ho no io Invented a stock er and Automatic telegraph tel ph system while working at ut a n salary eatery of or per month Ills His invention was print ea erl upon u on by tl tit the Western Vestern ollern Union lalon Telegraph company which contracted with him for tor nil all his future telegraphic eagerly s seIzed l d and by means mesne of It this option has since secluded from tram the world worM sunny many man a n potent patent which would have hao ordinary man tame fume and fortune won un on a It was wee thirty years yean ago alO that took look out his tint first patent an r IIII tintury ago ngo that the tho commissioner patents at Washington complained of ot the th th young men man In New Jersey who lim hae made Inalle the path to the of ot pat patent nt alike ollice by traveling It II to so o frequently As contributory to the he perfect development of or th the telephone he hot compelled I to 10 divide the hit hi io tr with him dim by b flouting him In the courts courtl and fUld utter after his hla victory victor for a n time or Dull Dell abandoned In h he has hae I won such distinct surceases success In his hla duplex and multiple systems his hh hi process pro MII for tor c ci Mut iy I telegraphing moving trim etc err and devoted doted from a n to phonics in which he made merry many discoveries such lIuch us nil the I w multiplier sound the tho which amplified It and above alou all 1111 tie the phonograph which microphone Th Then n there are ure the ope and other kindred tact Edison reproduces It in s seems Mems ms to have along 1 tracks but always with electricity either Ither Immediate or suggested as lIS the tte motive driven his trains Ull like fire tire is a n but a bad bod master masler has alway kept It In Its power ant nt to mankind and In 1619 1 after otter years ear of at experimentation took look the public Into his hili confidence proper b place piece as a Servo ot of what hAt h he be had done In to the wy laY of ot Incandescent lighting He lie solved the by giving a universal demon problem of at lighting by electricity which was the subdivision of at the light and its It II distribution from a 1 central with gas liter After this whatever he did dill was accepted as a 1 matter of ot course fur for hi he h had hall accomplished point as I declared d what experts expert had h j The Th light lies has been termed his greatest achievement but there th Is fa I no limitation to the Edison and when he shall havo have turned his hla serious attention to aerial navigation his admirers genius of ot an their wings Ings for tor flight and send In n orders for their aerodromes aerodrome or whatever he will wll at lit once plume may recommend In fact It has been |