January 29, 2020
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Originally published in January 1912
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“Mr. Thomas A. Edison has conceived the idea of building furniture of concrete, for use in his concrete houses, the advantage of concrete furniture lying in its cheapness. He has already built a sample piece of furniture. The cost of this cabinet is but $10. Mr. Edison explains that this will not be the selling price, and he does not venture to name the store price of the cabinet, as he has no idea how much the middle man may require for his share of the profits. In order to test the ability of this piece of furniture to stand the rough handling of freight men, he recently sent the furniture to Chicago and back.”
—Scientific American, January 1912
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