When did Edison die?

As Edison crossed eighty, his health started to decline with a series of ailments. He fell into a coma on October 14, 1931 and died four days later. He was then 84.

Henry Ford had made a strange, yet touching request to Edison’s son Charles to seal a test tube of air in the great inventor’s room soon after his death. This test tube is put on display at the Henry Ford Museum near Detroit. Also made were plaster casts of Edison’s face and hands.

The whole of America mourned the passing of this legend. Electric lights in streets and buildings across the country were switched off or dimmed. Yes, it was as if the world had turned dark, as it was before Edison switched on the first ever light-switch.

Edison’s wife Mina passed away in 1947.

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