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Hongkong, 16th August, 1911.

"THE KING OF INVENTORS."

AN INTERVIEW WITH EDISON

REGARDING HIS WORK, \"

CAN I VENTION DE TAUGHT? When I stepped-ints-tho-library of Mr Thomas A. Edison, in one of the group of build. ings comprising the great plant at Orange, New Jersey, it was (saya Mr. Waldo P. Warren, writing in the Century Illustrated Magazine) to meet and talk-with a man whose many won- derful achievements had fred my imagination since my childhood days,

immediate object of my visit was to get Mr. Edison to express more at length his views in regard to the possibilities or taching men how to develop their latent inventive instino. It was a subject that had long engaged my in. terest, and I had only recently read this atato mont:

Edison regards the art of inventing very much in the light of a profession which may be learned almost as successfully as soldiering or acting, of even dootoring. Thousand of men, he thinks, might have bosome inventors had they bat, cultivated their ideas, for the. Foreative germ lies hidden in most minds,"

This impressed me as being the gorm of a great idea, and I wished to see it developed.. After explaining fally the object of my visit, I asked Mr. Edison a number of questions calcu lated to engage his thought upon matters of general interest. Having heard of his deafness, and not knowing t how difflenlt it might be to talk with him, I had prepared a number of ques tions along the line of the intended interview. These I handed to him in type-writion form,

STIMULATING THE IMAGINATION.

He looked thom over and remarked, "You have some hard ones here." Then he reached for my fonatain -pou, which he saw sticking out of my coat pocket, and, picking up a pad of yellow paper, began to write dowi. numbered auswers

to my written questions.

The list of questions, and his answers, in elnded the following:

Do you believe that inventiveness con bo taught Yes, if the person has ambition,energy

and imagination

At what age is one most likely to respond to such instraction-About twelve years.

What mothod of instruction would be most valuble-Froblems to be solved.

WEATHER REPORT.

On the 17th at 12.05 p.m.-The barometer has risen moderately over N. China, and a elight rise has taken place over 8. China.

China Sea, and relatively low over 8. China.

Pressure remains high over the 8. part of the Yesterday afternoon the typhoon was moving towards N.E. over E. Japan. Returns from thence are lacking this morning.

Fresh to strong monson may be orpeotel over the N. part of the Chiva Sen..!

at 10a.m. to-day. 5.17 inches

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows:-

DISTRICT Hongkong & Neighbourhood,

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FORECAST.

Formosa Channel

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Hongkong and Lamoola. Same as No. 1. South coast of China betoon) Same as No. 1.

Dougkong and Usinan..

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Should it be done through schools and books? Kooks and astual demonstration. What

of the advantages of ordinary shop Hakodate experienceGreat advantage to have actual Tokio personal knowledge of how things are done. Kochi

What

do you think of instruction by corres- Nagasaki pondence? The cheapest and best way for a Kagoshima poor man, if the college is reputable.

Oshima..... What frame of mind helps to bring ideas - Naha.... Ambitious.

Ishi jims

It is true that an investor has to be more or Bonin Is. les abnormal ?-Abnormal persons are never Chefoo.... commercial inventors,

Weihaiwoi

What of intuition and technical training? Hankow Which is the most prolife of idens P-Imagina Kinking Lion supplies the ideas, and technical knowledge Shanghai helps to carry them out.

Gutzlaff Which is an inventor's obief inspiration --If Sharp Pk. he is a good inventor, it is to make his inven- Amoy tion earn money to permit bim to indulge in Swatow mere inventions. It he is a one-idea inventor, Taihoku the incentive is generally money only.

Taichu

When he had finished writing these answers Tainan he leaned back in his chair and bogan to falk Kosha....... over the subject in general. One of the first Pescadores

"Do you want to know my Canton things he said was: definition of a successful invention ? It is some. Hongkong thing that is so practical that a Polish Jow will Vict. Peak buy it.

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take records."

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"I have tried so many things I thought were true, and found I was mistaken, that I have is to try out what seems to be the right thing quit being too sure about anything. All I can

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Hongkong Obsergatory, August 16th.

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Ob, no," he said. "I never think about s thing any

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'can't see anything more In it, and just put it Weather zaide and go at something else, and the first Rain thing I know the very idea I wanted will come to me. Then I drop the other and go back to it and work it written questions for further elucidation, "that

"Is it Out"..

I asked, repeating one of my

in a sort of frenzy of illumination! inventors ara abnormal people, doing their work

long-haired fellows that not queer and figure out

Nothing to it," be assured me.

"Those queer things, I don't call them real inventors. qk ezoq sup st pau Once in a while they may hit something, but pour les es an dog pa ang not often. There are perhaps five hundred real

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