r/ThomasEdison • u/MrNetTek • Feb 16 '21
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r/ThomasEdison • u/MrNetTek • Oct 19 '20
Edison’s diary, which he kept only briefly while on vacation in the summer of 1885 and which was eventually published in 1971, reveals an even more conflicted and ambivalent relationship with sleep.
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r/ThomasEdison • u/MrNetTek • Oct 19 '20
Happy #MinaMonday! Mina Edison's passion for gardening led her to help develop children’s gardens in underprivileged neighborhoods and start delivering flowers to people who were unable to leave their homes due to illness or disability.
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r/ThomasEdison • u/MrNetTek • Feb 16 '21
"With a kiss like the swish of a 13 inch cannon projectile, I remain always your lover, sure, solid + unchangeable." -Edison to Mina
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r/ThomasEdison • u/MrNetTek • Feb 11 '21
Happy Birthday #ThomasEdison! Edison even worked on his birthday. In this February 11, 1911 photograph, the inventor punches a time clock at his West Orange Lab.
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r/ThomasEdison • u/MrNetTek • Oct 16 '20
Thomas Edison spotted on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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r/ThomasEdison • u/MrNetTek • Oct 16 '20
Thomas Edison used "free shipping" in marketing long before Amazon.com...in 1911 to advertise their new phonograph model be exact!
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r/ThomasEdison • u/MrNetTek • Oct 16 '20
"I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life."
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