About Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures. The merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the competitor Thomson-Houston Electric Company resulted in...
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I have not failed. I have found ten thousand ways that won't work.
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People loved you in the way they knew how—and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Life is always uncertain. We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.