Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — Edison at the World's Fair. [ARTICLE]

Edison at the World's Fair.

Thomas A. Edison, the famous electrician, has applied for ”35,000 feet of space, or about one seventh of all that the Electricity building contains. “I have it from Mr. Edison himself,” said Chief John P. Barrett, “that his display at the fair is to be the-greatest achievement of his life. In talking of his application for space' Mr. Edison admitted that he was asking for a large section of the buiidiug; Ibut every inch will be put to good purpose,’ he added. ‘I shall not waste a foot of the areg, assigned to me, but will present a series of the most interesting electrical inventions ever produced.’ I happen ,to know,” Professor Barrett added, “that Mr. Edison is doing just as he says. HeisL_making an almost innumerable list of novel and spectacular exhibits. Other electricians are not idle. We are already crowded for space in our building, and if the demand continues us it has begun ! don’t know how we will accommodate all the exhibitors.