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BY the death at Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, on Oct. 18, of Thomas Alva Edison, America has lost one of its most famous men, and one whose name, like those of his countrymen Fulton, Whitney, Colt, Morse, Bell, Maxim, Westinghouse, and the Wright brothers, will always be remembered as that of a great inventor. When a youth, Edison bought a set of Faraday's works, and he afterwards said, “I think I must have tried everything in those books.” It was in this direction his great strength lay; for, gifted with a vivid imagination and a quick and active mind, he possessed a remarkable willingness to put everything to the test, and to seek in any and every direction for a solution to the problem of the moment.
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Dr. Thos. A. Edison. Nature 128, 751–752 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128751a0
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