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4 wors Interested IL physies and, ~
cause Of TIE oldsr boys knovIedGe
1 q chsuiutry, Ne younger one staysd
H II his roon until TIE oil had burned
||low In ~ ksrossns lamps, which
fhrnishsd ths only lights II th6se
days.
H Today those two boys arr men past
II mildle age. One l. world famous a.
n - inventor and ~ other. hinsslf N
4 Inventor, b one Of Tie bsst known
4 chemists and mstallurgists In the
country. The younger boy was Thom-
q A. Edison and the other was Dr..
Oliver B. Dawson Of "a Paso, TEXAS.
II Who invented the Dawson reduction
h furnace for treating ores.
On the 35th anniversary Of Edi-
sons announcement that he had per-
i fected the incandescent electric lamp,
II Dr.. Dawson recalled wildly his
\ friendship for the wizard Of Menlo
Park" when they were both unknown
\ young men, living in the Broad street
boarding house and dreaming their
dreams Of the future. Edison had
Il been a telegraph operator on the
\ Grand Trunk railroad. with head
4 quarters ct Port Huron, Mich, but
his hearing was so bad that he had
1 lost his place, DR.. Dawson says. Be-
fore learning his trade, Edison had
been newsboy on the Grand Trunk
\ and had published q little paper call
ed the Grand Trunk Herald.
HE had q little shop on Railroad
avenue, in Newark. where he tinkered
With telegraph instruments, made by
telegraph outfits and taught some
japanese boys telegraphy," DR.. Daw-
son said. HE had lost his last job
because Of his defective hearing and
the inventive turn Of his mind was
even then leading him to experiment
with telegraph instruments. In that
dingy little shop on Railroad avenue
be discovered that more than one
message could be sent over tele-
graph line at the same time. That
was the beginning Of the quadruplex
telegraph instrument. He took this
to the Western Union company's Of
Ace in New York.
ale had the instrument under his
arm when he went there and cooled
his heels outside Of the general man.
ayers door. He expected to ask
5000 for the invention. Instead.
the company paid him 100000. He
came back to the Broad street board
ing house in Newark with roll Of
bills a. big around as pint cup
There was $4,000 in that roll. I
told him he better put it in the bank.
but he said:
"T'm afraid of banks. I will keep
II here in my ROOM
AT that time a number of banks
had failed following the end Of the
civil war and he was afraid he would
lose the money that be hoped to use
for perfecting his other ideas. He
knew little or nothing Of business
matters, as he lad had no experience
in business before that time.
"The discovery Of the photograph
was an accident. He was trying to
find something that would improve
his hearing by mechanical means.
When he discovered that the crude
little instrument he was working on
recorded and reproduced articulate
speech, he was rs much surprised as
was the world when he announced his
discovery. lie kept working on Il
until he had perfected the little in
strument which reproduced sounds
when rubber tubes were placed to the
ears Of the listeners. That was the
real beginning Of the present highly
developed photograph.
"The first electric lamp was dis
covered by q man named King. He