AP) ─ Thomas A. Edison died peacefully before dawn today at the ... The 84-year-old inventor, who lay deep in a coma at the end, did not wish to live, Dr. Hubert S. Howe disclosed, when he ...

(Edison died on Oct ... at the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park in New Jersey. By phone, Carlucci confirmed that the quote, "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up," did come from Edison.