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THE celebration, not only in the United States, but also in Amsterdam, Rome, and other places, of the fiftieth anniversary of the production by Mr. Thomas A. Edison of his first incandescent electric lamp was a remarkable tribute to the great inventor, now in his eighty-third year. The principal gathering took place at Greenfield, the village constructed by Mr. Henry Ford on his estate at Dearborn, Michigan, to which has been transported the laboratory in which Mr. Edison worked so long at Menlo Park, New Jersey. In the re-erected laboratory, in the presence of President Hoover and many distinguished guests, on Oct. 21, Mr. Edison repeated his historical experiments which resulted in the completion of his first successful lamp. During the celebrations, an account of which was broadcast, Mr. Hoover voiced the nation's appreciation of “men who have that originality of mind and that devotion to industry to carry scientific thought forward in steps and strides until it spreads comfort in every home”. The village of Greenfield is to be a part of a great museum of Americana, an object lesson in American progress, which Mr. Ford is inaugurating in connexion with the Edison Institute of Technology.
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News and Views. Nature 124, 700–704 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124700b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124700b0