Theodore Miller Edison

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Theodore Miller Edison (July 10, 1898 – November 24, 1992) was the sixth child and fourth son of inventor Thomas Edison. He attended The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and later Montclair Academy in Montclair, New Jersey.^[1] Theodore ended his education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he earned a physics degree in 1923. He was the only member of the Edison family to graduate from college. ^[2]

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, New Jersey. He earned over 80 patents in his career. In 1925 he married Anna Maria Osterhout, who was also a student at MIT. In later years he became an ardent environmentalist, opponent of the Vietnam War and advocate of Zero Population Growth. He lived in West Orange with his wife Anna until his death on November 24, 1992. ^[2]

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^ Edison Family Album: Theodore Miller Edison, national Park Service. Accessed November 21, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Pace, Eric. "Theodore M. Edison; An Illustrious Father Guided Inventor, 94", New York Times, November 26, 1992. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. "Theodore M. Edison, an inventor, environmentalist and philanthropist who was the last surviving child of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison, died on Tuesday at his home in West Orange. He was 94 years old. He died of Parkinson's disease, said a cousin, Kim Arnn. After Thomas Alva Edison died in 1931, Theodore Edison took charge of his father's experimental laboratories in West Orange. His father's more than 1,000 inventions included the microphone, the phonograph and the incandescent electric lamp."