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Do you know what he chose at last?
Do you remember the plant which the boys and girls of India, China, and Japan know so well?
It is the bamboo.
And it was bamboo which Mr. Edison chose.
In ten cotton factories in one town were men, women, and children working. They worked in rooms where gas was used, the gas injured their eyes and health. Later, in those same factories there were sixty thousand electric lights.
He often worked all night. He said he could work best when the rest of the world was asleep.
But he liked fun, too.
One day he said to his old friend, of whom he learned telegraphing,
“Look here—I am able to send a message from New York to Boston without any wire at all.”
“That is impossible,” said his friend.
“Oh, no, it’s a new invention.”
“Well, how is it done?” said Mr. McKensie.
“By sealing it up and sending by mail,” was the comical answer.
At the Paris Exposition in 1881, two great rooms were filled with his inventions. The rooms were lighted with his lights.
Mr. Edison said, “Anything is possible with electricity.”
That he was a genius, nobody can deny.
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