Thomas Alva Edison was an inventive genius. Edison once said that he and his workers tried to make “a minor invention every 10 days and a big thing every six months or so.” Averaging one patent every week, Edison accumulated a total of 1,093 patents, making him the number-one inventor in American history. It was on this date in 1908 that the Grand Forks Herald reported on Thomas Edison’s first visit to North Dakota. The 61-year-old inventor stopped in Fargo while en route to the Pacific Coast,