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Edison Fans At Millburn High Raise Funds for Inventor's Park
The MHS Edison Club seeks to form new clubs celebrating the inventor's work ay other high schools.
Millburn High School's Friends of Edison Club raised over $500 for the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, meeting its fundraising goal, the Independent Press reported.
The money raised is slated to go toward restoring a monument presented in 1911 to Thomas Edison by representatives of the copper industry, the article said. The monument is described as a 450-pound cubic foot of copper that is on display in the inventor's library. It reads:
Presented to Thomas Edison by American Producers and Consumers of Copper in Recognition of his stimulation by Various Inventions in Telegraphy, Telephony, Electric Lighting, Electric Railway, etc. to the Copper Industry – October Thirteenth.
Millburn Friends of Edison Club President Carrick Irwin said the group hopes to raise at least $1,000 for future restorations and plans to seed new Edison Clubs in area high schools.
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