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Thomas Edison Admires Reginald Aubrey Fessenden

It was not easy to surprise Thomas Edison, whose forward thinking abilities predicted things so far in the future as clean energy and robots that could do people’s jobs for them. However, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866-1932) was one employee that impressed Edison beyond his own predictions. As one of the world’s most influential electrical engineers, […]

4 Steps to Innovating like Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison didn’t become one of the Man of the Millennium without using a few important techniques for success. Over the years, he influenced his workers and America with the example he set and the ideals that he preached. In fact, his words are still helpful in today’s world and economy. Practice the essence of […]

8 Ways to Excite Your Students About Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was the world’s greatest inventor, with 1093 recorded patents. He virtually re-defined our world. In 1996 Life magazine named him the “Man of the Millennium”. His accomplishments even today annually account for about $12 trillion of the $80 trillion world economy. Economists believe his amazing achievements account for 1/4th of the world’s existing […]

Thomas Edison and Your Favorite Sports on Film

An Unlikely Candidate for making Sports Viewing Popular We take sports on film for granted today, expecting them to be exciting and worthy of watching over and over again. We probably never associate the invention of sports films with the same man who gave us the light bulb, phonograph, electric vehicle batteries and lots of […]

Thomas Edison Loved Books as much as he loved Inventing

“I read anything that helps the imagination.” Whether it is 1847 or 2019, we can all appreciate National Book Lover’s Day. Did you know Thomas Edison had a book collection of up to 30 thousand books in his home alone? That doesn’t even include the ones he took out from other libraries – which is […]

Thomas Edison Brings Innovation to Western Films

Extra, Extra! Bandits had the bright idea to rob a train and now have a posse in hot pursuit. There is gunfire, people tied up, and even shot. A fireman is thrown from the moving train. Audiences cowered in fear, as the posse was in hot pursuit, cornering the bandits in a secluded wooded area […]

Thomas Edison Brought Frankenstein to Life First

Mary Shelley painted the picture, but Edison made it move! Virtually everyone knows the story about Frankenstein and most have viewed some movie adaptation of it, whether scary, animated, or a parody. Many associate the very funny version of Frankenstein with the late Gene Wilder’s madcap antics as Dr. Frankenstein. However, very few people realize […]

These Thomas Edison Movie Studios were the First in the World

Where Budding Directors and Producers Got Their Start In Movies Edison’s movie production activities ran from 1893 to 1918, during which Edison Studios made approximately 1200 movies, 54 feature length and the rest shorts. From New Jersey to New York, Edison Studios was home to some of the first movies filmed at a few historical […]

Thomas Edison and the Rubber Men

-More than just Camping Buddies- In previous blogs we talked about the camping buddies [a.k.a. The Vagabonds] Edison, Ford and Firestone. [See http://www.edisonmuckers.org/thomas-e... ; and  http://www.edisonmuckers.org/on-the-r... ] But they did more than just enjoy the wilds and bucolic scenery. During WWI, the rubber men realized a cut-off of the imported national rubber supply could seriously impact their businesses, […]

How Thomas Edison Napped His Way To Success

Over the last 100+ years, literary and technical professionals have talked about the diaphanous state between being awake and just drifting off to sleep….that gauzy, dream-like interval which experts call “hypnagogia.” Creative icons like Thomas Edison, Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Walter Scott, Salvador Dalí, Edgar Allen Poe, John Kennedy, Nikola Tesla and Isaac Newton have credited […]