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Show EDI8ON ONCE DISCHARGED In the January Woman's Homo Companion Com-panion n contributor names ton great men of our tlmo nnd gives raotay Interesting In-teresting facts nbout them. Among these of course, is Thomas A. Edison who is briefly described as follows: Thomas Edison Is ono of tho great-ost great-ost Invontlvo mechanical geniuses who over lived. His llfo story Is outwardly outward-ly uneventful. Ho was born In Ohio In 1847 and rtt twelvo became a newsboy; news-boy; ho took advantago of an empty express room In a car and printed n llttlo nowspapor called Tho Grand Trunk Herald, and also carried on chemical and electrical experiments thoro. Theso enmo to an end when ho- sot flro to tho car accidentally nnd was dismissed by tho angry conductor Ho learned telegraphy and practiced practic-ed It In sovoral cities, coming after a tlmo to Now York. Thoro he Invented In-vented a printing tologrnph machlno known as tho ticker, to record stock quotations. This brought him In forty for-ty thousand dollars and enabled him to sot up hla fnmouB laboratory In New Jorsoy. ' His first Tcally groat Invention was tho quadruple! telegraph which makes it posslblo to send four messagos over ov-er ono wire at tho tlmo. Next came tho carbon transmitter. Edison's third great work was the discovery of the carbon filament for tho incandescent incan-descent light, and his next tho phonograph, phono-graph, which has dovcloped into extended ex-tended and various uso. His work on tho cinematograph has brought moving pictures into a conspicuous placo not only for amusomont but for education. |