The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-02-10
THOMAS A. EDISON,
The WIZARD, Is SO

Thomas A. Edison, the noted invent.
or. who perhaps has given to the world
more of conveniences through his in
ventions than any other one man, will
be So years Of age tomorrow. The fol-
lowing story of his life work has been
submitted to the IGlacier by Keir &
Cass, local handlers of the Edison phon-
ographs:
Asked for little birthday talk. MIR.
Edison replied: THE way to be happy
and healthy is to be busy all the time.
| find that as | approach So | have just
begun to live. If you are busy you
don't have time to grow old. | don't
work by the clock and accordingly
don't feel that ] am getting older.
work till finish a thing, and then, y
here MIR. Edison smiled, eff there is
nothing else to:be done, 60 home.
81 hope that everyone will feel as
young and as pleased with life as / do
when their sixty-ninth birthday comes
a long,
1t is safe to say that no man on
earth has ever crowded so much USE
fulness into a single lifetime. The
genius of Edison which evolved the
electric light-a single invention which
practically turned night into day
throughout the world and did more to
suppress crime than all the laws passed
in the last century-is still undimmed.
Just a few years ago he gave to the
world his latest and favorite invention,
the Diamond disc phonograph, which
actually recreates music, as distin-
guished from a mere. mechanical. re-
production of musical sounds. n .
Edison was born at Milan, Ohio, on
February il. lS47. He early evinced a
love for chemistry and its kindred sub
iects. Few men have ever run at a
swifter pace up the stepping stones to
fame. His first employment was as a
newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway
where he started a small weekly paper
which at one time had four hundred
paid subscribers. He next took up tel
egraphy and soon became an expert
telegrapher. After five years of teleg-
raphy he came to New York, where
after a short time he sold his first in
vention for about $4,000 Then he
plunged into the realm of invention
where his genius seemed to run riot.
Take. :. his major, inventions as they
come: -
The Duplex and Quadruplex tele-
graphs ard the electromagnetic, which
revolutionized telegraphy the cylinder
phonograph in 1877, now the Diamond
Amberola phonograph; in 1879 the
electric light, which needs no words to
tell its wonders; in 1891, the moving
pictures, which today, as "the movies"
are furnishing amusement to thousands
upon thousands; method of crushing
ore. by which rocks weighing as much
as ten tons are reduced to bits in few
seconds: the storage battery; then his
last and favorite invention, the Dia-
mond disc photograph. From 1869 to
the present time Edison has filed more
than /, 400 applications for patents.
Just few years ago Edison resumed
his research in acoustics where he left
off when he invented the cylinder
phonograph. He was dissatisfied with
the efforts of other inventors in this
field. He set before him the goal of
absolute recreation of music. After
countless experiments and the expendi-
ture of nearly two millions of dollars
in experiments alone, Edison announced
that he had succeeded in recreating the
human voice. He said that he had
found the touchstone of acoustics. The
Edison Diamond disc phonograph was
given to the world as the instrument of
music's recreation.
1t has since been proved on number
less occasions that Edison's recreation
of the human voice canuot be distin-
guished from the original. For the
purpose of demonstrating this, Edison
has given tone tests all over the United
States, In which the artist sings with
his or her records, it being actually
to distinguish between the
living voice and its recreation by the
Diamond disc phonograph.