EDISON'S SON NOT TOO KEEN ON GEOGRAPHY
Boston, Massachusetts (JFK+50) On May 15, 1921, Theodore Miller Edison*, son of the world's most famous inventor, confessed that he had "flunked" the mentality questions propounded by his father.
The younger Edison, a sophomore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology**, did well on scientific questions but was not so successful with geographical questions.
According to a front page story in the New York Tribune, Theodore Edison admitted he did not know of what country La Paz is the capital and could not name the two rivers which converge at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
*Theodore Miller Edison (1898-1992) was born in West Orange, NJ, the youngest child of Thomas A. Edison. He graduated from MIT in 1923 with a degree in Physics. TME founded Calibron Industries and was awarded 80 patents in his career.
**M.I.T., located in Cambridge, Massachusetts is a world leader in research and education.
SOURCE
"Young Edison Flunks on His Father's Test," The New York Tribune, May 16, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
