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Theodore Miller Edison (July 10, 1898 – November 24, 1992) was the sixth child and fourth son of inventor Thomas Edison, and founder of Calibron Industries, Inc.
He was born on July 10, 1898 at Glenmont, the Edison home in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey. He attended The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and later the Montclair Academy in Montclair, New Jersey. He graduated in 1916. Theodore ended his e...
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Theodore Miller Edison (July 10, 1898 – November 24, 1992) was the sixth child and fourth son of inventor Thomas Edison, and founder of Calibron Industries, Inc.
He was born on July 10, 1898 at Glenmont, the Edison home in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey. He attended The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and later the Montclair Academy in Montclair, New Jersey. He graduated in 1916. Theodore ended his education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he earned a physics degree in 1923.
In 1925 he married Anna Maria Osterhout, who was also a student at MIT.
After graduation, Theodore worked for his father's company, Thomas A. Edison, Inc., starting as a lab assistant. He later founded his own company, Calibron Industries, Inc., and built his own smaller laboratory in West Orange. He earned over 80 patents in his career.
In later years he became an ardent environmentalist, opponent of the Vietnam War and advocate of Zero...
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