Edison as I know him, by Henry Ford, in collaboration with Samuel Crowther.

[III]

OUR DEBT TO EDISON
IT is the fashion to call this the age of industry.
Rather, we should call it the age of Edison.
For he is the founder of modern industry in this
country. He has formed for us a new kind of
declaration of independence. The Declaration of
Independence stated certain principles of political liberty. The Edison declaration is not in
words. It is in the nature of a kit of tools, by the
use of which each and every person among us has
gained a larger measure of economic liberty than
had ever previously been thought possible.
We are only learning to use the tools and the
methods that he has given to us. Already our general prosperity leads the world, and this is due to
the fact that we have had Edison. Nearly every
important factor in our prosperity directly or indirectly traces back to some invention by him.
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