The celebrated inventor’s last breath is said to be held in a test tube at the Henry Ford Museum near Detroit, US. The automobile magnate, Henry Ford, was a great friend and admirer of Edison and, when the latter was on his death bed in 1931, Ford persuaded Edison’s son Charles to catch his father’s last breath in a glass of bottle and cork it. Some believe that the bizarre request was due to Ford’s apparent belief that the soul leaves the body in the last breath. The test tube went missing, but was rediscovered and is now on display in Ford’s Michigan-based museum.
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