3 The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented The Modern the Modern World — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2017-03-24
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Product
“In the early evening of December 7th, 1914, an explosion rocked his film finishing building, part of the complex of buildings surrounding…”
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Focus
“He just wanted to focus on his work.”
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People
“People-- Edison was getting so famous, and people were so excited about his inventions, that he shut down Congress for an hour.”
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Persistence
“His graphophone would play wax coat, wax-coated discs rather than foil-wrapped cylinders, but it would be a long ti- a long while…”
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Capital
“And sometimes they did, but most times they did not.”
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