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making plows.of The • Heshop felt and that focused memoryonwas composed eleccompany grew steadily and added many emtron particles that spread through space, never ployees. In the late but 1840s, John relocated dying or changing, leaving the head the of a entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed dying human being in search of another host. of his own lackpick of education, Johnthese sent meshis Psychics could up and hear children to the state’s finest schools. One of sages, and Edison was sure a machine could do his proudest days occurred when son Charles the same. He devoted several years of his life earned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s toCommercial building such a contraption. College in Chicago.For years, he also worked on a valve-operated receiving set •whose With his son Charles the company, purpose was tomanaging deliver messages from John found time to pursue philanthropic inthe spirit world. He died before either inventerests. He co-founded both the First Nationtion was ever completed.
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• Henry hadthethe greatest affection He wasFord elected mayor of Moline in 1873,for where one of his They first actions replaceThomas Edison. worked– the together and ment ofgood the city’s openFord drains with a in sewer became friends. believed reinpipe system saved countless reduccarnation, and–perhaps believedlives thatby one’s soul ing the spread of disease. exited the body with the last breath exhaled on He askedJohn Edison’s to hold a test tube •earth. The original Deereson logo, registered in 1876, deer that was he native to Afri-his next to depicted Edison’samouth when breathed ca.inThirty-six years in 1912, it tube was relast 1931. He did later, so, and the test was placed with image of a North American discovered in the Ford’s personal things after his white-tailed In the thatdisplay foldeath in 1950. deer. The test tubedecades is now on lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took at the Ford museum. over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.
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