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October 19, 2016

State & Union: Edison claimed he found gold in Olean oil-barrel sludge

When Thomas Edison, the renowned inventor whose most famous achievement was the electric light bulb, died Oct. 18, 1931, in his New Jersey home, it was front-page news across the

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