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Santa Claus? (Edison anecdote)
In 1916, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and a large entourage embar...

AC/DC (Edison anecdote)
Thomas Edison not only invented the light bulb and the phonograph; he also gave ...

Thomas Edison: Cabbage Rolls (Edison anecdote)
To his great consternation, Thomas Edison often found visitors in his office hel...

99.998% Perspiration (Edison anecdote)
Someone once remarked upon the huge number of failures which Thomas Edison had r...

Dinner Party (Edison anecdote)
Thomas Edison was a workaholic who regarded formal dinners as a waste of time. A...

Divine Inspiration? (Edison anecdote)
While working on the world's first motion picture camera (the kinetoscope), Thom...

Famous Father (Edison anecdote)
While campaigning for the New Jersey governorship in 1940, Charles Edison was ca...

Pure Genius (Edison anecdote)
A deaf man who recorded sound? A school dropout who unraveled the mysteries of e...

Turnkey Solution? (Edison anecdote)
Thomas Edison enjoyed showing visitors around his summer residence, pointing out...

Absent-minded Creator (Edison anecdote)
After a devastating electrical storm one day, Thomas Edison was visited by a gro...

Lightbulb Moment (Edison anecdote)
"Edison employed in his office a graduate named Upton of Princeton University wh...

Ambi-valence? (Edison anecdote)
By the age of twelve, Thomas Edison had a job on the Grand Trunk Railway selling...

Young Edison (Edison anecdote)
In the spring of 1869, Thomas Edison, broke and jobless, visited a friend who wo...

Just Compensation? (Edison anecdote)
While working for the Gold & Stock Co. (a telegraph company which provided gold ...

Edison Cement (Edison anecdote)
"One of the metropolitan area's earliest and most outspoken concrete evangelists...

Edison's Phonograph (Edison anecdote)
One day the famed journalist Henry Morton Stanley - having witnessed a demonstra...

Edison Fire (Edison anecdote)
"[One] December evening the cry of 'Fire!' echoed through [Thomas Edison's] plan...

Dark Continent? (Edison anecdote)
Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb was not universally well-received. I...

Spendthrift? (Edison anecdote)
Western Union once offered Thomas Edison one hundred thousand dollars for one of...

News Flash (Edison anecdote)
"After a few more flashes in the pan, we shall hear very little more of Edison o...

Morse Romance (Edison anecdote)
One day Thomas Edison, whose hearing declined at early age, suggested that his f...

Patently Obvious? (Edison anecdote)
Despite his incredible ability as an inventor, Thomas Edison (who filed some 130...

Edison's Lab (Edison anecdote)
When Thomas Edison went to work for Henry Ford, the automaker had Edison's elect...

Curiosity (Edison anecdote)
Thomas Edison was once asked to sign someone's guest book. After filling in his ...

Morse Tribute (Edison anecdote)
Thomas Edison's two marriages produced six offspring. Among his more light-heart...

Spoken Too Soon (Edison anecdote)
"By the mid-1920s, the resistance of exhibitors to spending money on anything te...

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