On the night of 21 October 1931, millions of Americans took part in a coast-to-coast ceremony to commemorate the passing of a great man. Lights (1)_____ in homes and offices from New York to California. The ceremony (2)_____ the death of arguably the most important inventor of all time: Thomas Alva Edison.Few inventors have (3)_____ such an impact on everyday life, and many of his inventions played a crucial (4)_____ in the development of modern technology. One should never (5)_____ how revolutionary some of Edison’s inventions were.In many ways, Edison is the perfect example of an inventor - that is, not just someone who (6)_____ up clever gadgets, but someone whose products transform the lives of millions. He possessed the key characteristics that an inventor needs to (7)_____ a success of inventions, notably sheer determination. Edison famously tried thousands of materials while working on a new type of battery, reacting to failure by cheerfully (8)_____ to his colleagues: ‘Well, at least we know 8,000 things that don’t work’. Knowing when to take no (9)_____ of experts is also important. Edison’s proposal for electric lighting circuitry was (10)_____ with total disbelief by eminent scientists, until he lit up whole streets with his lights.
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