Thomas Edison
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An Inventor's Life That Was Incandescent December 03, 2019
Edmund Morris died this past May of a stroke at the age of 78, having written the final sentence of “Edison” several months before. Composing in longhand and obsessed with the craft of writing — he considered 300 well-chosen words a day to be his pro...
Thomas Edison's Strange Genius November 07, 2019
Edmund Morris, who died in May at the age of 78, was a biographer highly praised for his 1979 book The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award). And he was pilloried for his 1999 biography Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, bec...
The Real Nature of Thomas Edison's Genius November 01, 2019
We All Live Like Henry Ford Now July 24, 2019
We live like kings these days, even while we bemoan our state like beggars. Generally speaking, the members of the American middle class possess a material splendor that would put to shame an 8th-century chieftain. Or a 12th-century princeling. Or ev...
The Road Trips of Edison and Ford July 16, 2019
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Henry Ford invented the affordable automobile.And, together, the brilliant best friends also invented the great American road trip!OK, yes, that's a stretch. But it's the kind of puffed-up exaggeration the two p...
Road Tripping with Thomas Edison and Henry Ford July 11, 2019
Imagine Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos piling into a fleet of Elon Musk's self-driving Teslas one summer week on a pilgrimage to the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif. People line the interstates to watch the cavalcade hum by. Vloggers bre...
