Top Items About Thomas Edison
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| Trivia | Alexander Graham Bell vs Thomas Edison - telephone greetings | When the telephone appeared in the 1870s, people worried about receiving calls from people to whom they had not been properly... | root | 168 | |
| Quotes | Nikola Tesla on Thomas Edison's brute force approach | Nikola Tesla on Thomas Edison: "He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard... | root | 48 | |
| Quotes | Thomas Edison on modern medicine | "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and... | root | 41 | |
| Anecdotes | Absent-minded Creator | After a devastating electrical storm one day, Thomas Edison was visited by a group of vestrymen seeking advice regarding... | Anonymous | 30 | |
| Anecdotes | Edison Fire | "[One] December evening the cry of `Fire!` echoed through [Thomas Edison`s] plant. Spontaneous combustion had broken out... | Anonymous | 30 | |
| Trivia | Thomas Edison's fascination with Morse Code | Thomas Edison was so fascinated by Morse Code that he taught it to his girlfriend Mina Miller and proposed marriage to her... | root | 24 | |
| Quotes | Quote about Work, Opportunity and Hard | `Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.` - Thomas... | Anonymous | 22 | |
| Anecdotes | Inventor`s Grudge | There was some intention of giving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 jointly to Thomas Edison and the famously... | Anonymous | 21 | |
| Anecdotes | AC/DC | Thomas Edison not only invented the light bulb and the phonograph; he also gave us the electric chair. In a desperate... | Anonymous | 21 | |
| Anecdotes | Patently Obvious? | Despite his incredible ability as an inventor, Thomas Edison (who filed some 1300 patents), made only one purely... | Anonymous | 19 |
