Thomas Alva Edison Series. Ep. # 2: Always Improving
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Thomas Alva Edison Series. Ep. # 2: Always Improving
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Dr. Paul Israel, Dr. Paul Israel of The Edison Papers, Rutgers University speaks about:
- While Edison did not succeed in selling his telegraphy system to the British, he learned a great deal about their own way of telegraphy.
- Edison’s Transition from Newark, NJ to Menlo Park, New Jersey.
- How Edison developed a much better transmitter for telegraphy.
- While working on the telephone, Edison discovered a way to record messages with the Phonograph
- Brings in others like Francis Upton with more standard education.
- Approached electric light with a very strategic system. Others have been trying to work with electric light for 40 years prior.
- Developing vacuum technology for light bulb.
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