Inventor's Great Fun with Nature's Surprises New York, Feb, 11, With 1,150 inventions to his credit, Edison celebrated his 80th birthday to-day by taking a boliday, which was spent in the company of Mr. Henry Ford, reading hundreds of telegrams of congratulations.
Interviewed by a crowd of reporters, Edison said that of all his inventions he would prefer to be. remembered by the phonograph. Experimenting has been his favourite amusement, "Nature has many] surprises and it is great fun to pull them out of the unknown."—Reuter.
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