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" BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS EDISON " INVENTOR OF LIGHTBULB PHONOGRAPH MOTION PICTURES
This black & white film, one of the episodes of the pioneering documentary program "Biography", is about the life of Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor.
He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. The film's is
Opening: February 11, A man turns years-old. He speaks to another man. The man turning 84 is Thomas Edison. Title: Biography - Thomas Edison ().
Mike Wallace is our host. Thomas Edison, inventor. Edison was born on February 11, , in Milan, Ohio. He was the youngest of seven children of Samuel and Nancy Edison.
Young photos of Thomas Edison. His mother Nancy. By the time he is years-old he is fascinated with some things. He has a laboratory. He works on a train, as he conducts an experiment on a train, some of his vials fall, there is smoke and fire, a conductor beats him causing him to lose hearing. Thomas rescues a station master's son and as a reward he is made an apprentice ().
Telegraph wires are set up. At 16, Edison leaves home and drifts from one station to another. Edison heads to New York City in Edison gets employed at a telegraph system. Newspaper article. Buildings of New York City. Western Union in NYC. Edison makes money off a patent to Western Union. Newark, NJ. A picture of him looking out of the window.
Edison marries Mary Stilwell in Edison home (). Edison takes Bell's telephone and creates a newer model. December 6, , Edison makes the first sound recording. Edison portrait (). Phonograph. The Edison speaks for itself. Record ad. Early recording played from a Phonograph. Early versions of the Phonograph play ().
Thomas edison video biography of queens new york Mike Wallace speaks This isn't a dreamy and gauzy kind of vision. Narrator : Within months, Edison had drawn up a patent application for an optical recording device called a "kinetograph" -- from the ancient Greek, meaning "writer of motion. A lot of it is just where he was at the time and the kind of impact he had that doesn't ever right in some sense get balanced against the failures or the people that fed the river of those inventions.Edison picture. Edison's notes. Edison at work. A lightbulb goes on. Edison in New York. A lightbulb. Factory (). September 4, Lightbulbs work. Edison's wife dies in Edison meets Mina Miller, they marry in A house in Florida. Edison's notes. West Orange, NJ, Edison works here. Iron ore is where Edison goes next.
He files patents. He shows pictures moving as his next project (). Kinetoscope parlors where one can pay a nickel to see moving photographs. Images from movies, a couple kisses, a man flexes his muscles. Moving pictures are put on a screen for large audiences.
Thomas edison video biography of queens and manhattan Conot, Robert People are enthralled by it, they want to see it, they want to experience it, but pretty soon it doesn't go anywhere, right. Neil Baldwin, Biographer : In his last years he actually looks halfway relaxed, if you can imagine Edison being relaxed. Retrieved December 9,His mining project is not going well. Edison's ore plant is useless. Near bankruptcy, Edison has failed at his ore project (). Edison's Kinetoscope becomes very popular. Charlie Chaplin in a movie. Cowboys shoot. Edison meets Navy men. Edison still works full days at 70 (). Edison sits at a desk. Edison enters an electrical plant.
Women make light bulbs. Edison visits Charles Steinmetz.
Thomas edison video biography of queens Neil Baldwin, Biographer : He was never there to welcome you. Narrator : Almost mythic in stature now, Edison could barely turn around without being honored. The film's is General Electric now controlled three-quarters of the US electrical business and would compete with Westinghouse for the AC market.The two look over things. Edison visits Henry Ford. Edison walks around. he chops at a tree in the great outdoors with friends, they start a fire. He relaxes in a hammock (). Edison searches for a domestic source of rubber.
Video life story: What Edison left by the end of his life, was a world that was well on its way to becoming the world that we know today. He often felt like he was alone even when there were other people around. Popularly dubbed as the battle of the titans in the electricity power generation and distribution — DC direct current versus AC alternating current — Thomas Edison locked horns with fellow inventor and brilliant engineer Nikola Tesla. Edison responded by undertaking production of phenol at his Silver Lake facility using processes developed by his chemists.
Edison speaks (). Edison stands near cameras. People applaud. Mrs. Edison speaks for her husband as he gets older. In , Henry Ford plays host to the Golden Jubilee of the Electric Light in Dearborn, MI. A replica of the train in which Edison served as a newsboy seventy years before. Edison speaks to the press via microphones
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Edison drives through Detroit, MI with President Herbert Hoover. Cars drive in the rain. A crowd waits. In , Edison starts a journey to Florida for the winter on a train (). Train goes down the tracks. Buildings lit by lightbulbs. Mike Wallace speaks (). End credits ().
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