By the 1930s,Carver had become famous all over the country and the world . He visited the Prince of Sweden and the British Prince of Wales. Thomas Edison asked Carver to work for him at a salary of more than $100,000 a year. The car manufacturer Henry Ford also made him a generous offer.But Carver was not interested in money ; he stayed on at the Tuskegee Institute with a monthly salary of $125.