When Edison became confined to a wheelchair, Ford brought an extra one to his estate so they could race.8 At a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the lightbulb, Ford honored Edison.9 When Edison spoke he ended his speech directed at Ford: “As to Henry Ford, words are inadequate10 to express my feelings. I can only say that in the fullest meaning of the term, he is my friend.” Therefore it is no surprise that Ford wanted something to remember Edison by after he passed away11 in 1931.
As the legend goes, Ford asked Thomas Edison’s son Charles to sit by the dying inventor’s bedside and hold a test tube12 next to his father’s mouth to catch his final breath. Ford was a man with many eccentricities (as was Edison) including some interest in reanimation and spiritualism,13 and some say that he was attempting to capture Edison’s soul as it escaped his body in hopes of later reanimating the inventor.
The truth of the story is somewhat less intense but bears a fairly close resemblance14 to the legend. While by no means15 did Charles hold up a test tube to Edison’s lips as he lay dying, there were indeed a series of eight test tubes very nearby his bed. In the words of his son Charles:
“Though he is mainly remembered for his work in electrical fields, his real love was chemistry. It is not strange, but symbolic, that those test tubes were close to him at the end. Immediately after his passing I asked Dr. Hubert S. Howe, his attending physician, to seal them with paraffin.16 He did. Later I gave one of them to Mr. Ford.”
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