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Why didn’t Edison fix his gate?

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Energy solutions with an SIT twist

Thomas Alva Edison, the renowned inventor, lived in a house with a large front garden and an iron gate at its entrance. It is said that friends who came to visit were both astonished and annoyed to discover that they were forced to push hard to swing open the gate. Time and again, they complained to Thomas to fix the creaking, old gate and Edison kept promising to oil the hinges and spare his guests the trouble, but never delivered. It was only after his death, at a ripe old age (84), that the matter came to light: the gate had been connected to a pump, and each time it was opened, water was pumped into the inventor’s bathtub.

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