Edison of our generation.
Edison he did all these interviews all this press um all these editorials I think that was his in some sense great
Edison as the salesman like he's the guy who really focused on selling the most light bulbs that's what he wanted to do
Edison um quits uh kind of goes off on his own for a while um very quietly on
Edison was a tinkering kind of guy.
Edison said, "Discontent is the first necessity of innovation."
Edison was a big believer in-- when somebody asked him, are you going to give up?
Edison here in New York actually installed both of these forms in its corporate head quarters recently reducing the summer heat gains by sixty seven percent, the white roof
Edison and so here's what Edison said I'll give you a second to read the quote because it's a great one
Edison2 is essentially an R&D company.
Edison2 is pretty much done.
Thomas Edison , another high school dropout, learned how to work, and then he had a mentor that taught him how to use the telegraph.
Thomas Edison has over 1,000 patents, but we only know him for two or three today.
And Edison would wait, and he'd wait for them to build up, wait for all the anticipation to build up, and he'd come out.
Westinghouse Edison and Tesla I got so excited um because in a sense it felt it
though Edison did know what people wanted and uh and but the life bu was so obviously useful so all these people
but Edison is very smart and so just just lies and just says oh no no no all the ways that my system is bad actually
So Edison , Thomas Edison also.
And Edison -- who I think has more patience than any other American in history-- he had an extraordinary way of working.
So Edison patented the light bulb in 1880.
Thomas Edison hardly had any formal schooling.
Thomas Edison is a third, and you could, indeed, argue about the automobile.
what Edison developed, but indeed be used for all sorts of power applications-- elevators, fans, machine tools, moving assembly lines.
maybe Edison , or equal to Edison , all through the 1890s, all through the early 1900s.
Thomas Edison said about Henry Ford-- Thomas Edison said about Henry Ford-- we cannot be sure whether what Henry Ford did was good or bad.
Thomas Edison invented the--- Light bulb.
Thomas Edison did.
Thomas Edison became the marketing mouthpiece of this broader organization.
And Edison , we all know Edison .
the Edison Electric Institute an association of shareholder owned electric companies representing 70% of
including Edison and the problems were just that the amplification technology wasn't good enough at the time and no one could really figure out how to make
Didn't Thomas Edison say something like, it took me 10,000 failures before I got it right?
They said to Thomas Edison , this letter to Thomas Edison , I know of two great men.
And what Edison was a really, really good at was gathering a bunch of engineers, understanding what was the next big thing that would
And what Edison realized was that if you took still images and moved them in rapid succession in front of light, you could create the illusion of life.
And whenever Edison knew that he had a really, really good invention, he would build up a lot of hype.
And so Edison came out and he unveiled his newest invention of the kinetoscope.
battle between Edison Tesla and westing house could not have been for even any better so without delaying any further
of good biographies of Edison um there is no no kind of big scholarly biography
the time Edison got there it's not like he was the first person to say God wouldn't it be cool if we had a light
this thing of Edison 's was that his two-year thing ended to be about about right like he just sort of it was this
things um Edison sort of just keeps lying about the various products and
by some guy called Edison .
It's just Thomas Edison was the best businessman among them.
A picture of Edison Cheng crammed into an economy class seat will go viral within seconds.
So here's Edison 's patent for the light bulb.
He leaves the Edison organization.
It's exactly what Edison solved to exploit exactly the same principle.
And what Edison used to do, at least according to legend, was he'd sit in a chair with ball bearings in his hand.
You picture Thomas Edison alone in a room somewhere trying out lots of little different fibers.