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  1. “Who years before had said that clothing that pinched was literally a killer pressure anywhere means that certain part of your body is deprived of its natural flood, and starvation and death began when the body is pressed and choked. Theories did not protect him from kidney failure. In august nineteen thirty one, he collapsed in his living room floor and spent ten days near death. By October he was too weak to leave bed and remained mentally drowsy, according to his doctor. He passed in and out of a coma and hovered on the edge of death for two weeks. Newspaper issued multiple bulletins each day reporting the slightest sign of improvement or decline. In the early morning of October 18, 1931, Thomas Alva Edison died at the age of eighty four at home with his family at his bedside.”

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  2. “Mina Edison's sister Jane had died suddenly in eighteen ninety eight, Edison wrote Mina expressing shock and admonished that if Jane had only been put on a milk diet, nature would have had the opportunity to throw off the poisonous, defective digestion, and she would be strong and hardy today. Over time, Edison had become more attached to milk as an ever reliable tonic. In nineteen thirty he explained he did fine with just nothing but one glass of milk every two hours. He maintained that eighty percent of our deaths are due to overeating. This conviction arose from his insight that auto intoxication of diseases in the bowels was the cause of most deaths. The solution was a matter of diet and lubrication. He was the same medical authority.”

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  3. “damaged. But on the night of the fire, when none of this was known, when the fire had yet to be contained, and was still hopping from one building to the next, and when the prospects were the bleakest, Edison's equanimity was put to a test. His immediate reaction? He cracked jokes, laughed, and declared Although I am over sixty seven years old, I'll start all over again tomorrow. Nothing could rattle him I love that story. That's amazing. Imagine your life's work at the time you think is burning down in front of you and you're laughing. It's saying, okay, well, back to work tomorrow. So, I want to skip ahead. This was taking place in 1914. I want to jump ahead to 1929. This is about two years before Edison passes away. I want to talk about his death and something that Henry Ford does before he dies.”

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  4. “Alternatively, I could go to Wall Street and get more, but my experience over there is as sad as Chopin's funeral march. I keep away. Those are Edison's words saying If you can't help me out, I guess I can go to Wall Street and raise money.”

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  5. “Young man, that's the thing, Edison told him, pounding the table for emphasis. Electric cars must keep near to power stations. The storage battery is too heavy. Steam cars won't do either, for they have a boiler and a fire. Your car is self contained, carries its own power plant. No fire, no boiler, no smoke, and no steam. You have the thing keep at it. With encouragement from the man whom Ford regarded as the greatest inventive genius in the world, ringing in his ears, Ford returned home with the conviction that he should persevere. He told his wife You are not going to see much of me until I am through with this car. The two had a second conversation too, Ford recalled. Edison invited Ford to ride with him on the train back to New York City at the conclusion of the convention.”

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  6. “It was not his customary practice to spend time outside of his own workplace. This is again another theme that runs throughout his book. He would eliminate almost all distractions, even like a reporter when he still has laboratory in New Jersey, reporter like, oh, we want to give you some press for your latest invention. Will you come into New York for an interview? And he would say, no, if I go into New York, I lose the entire day. Why don't you come here and we can talk while I work? So again, it's something that he developed when he was really young. And as far as I can tell, stayed with him until he died.”

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  7. “So after he, let me just interject here. After he loses the battle of the currents with Tesla, even though the electric light made him even more famous, he decided he wasn't his passion. He didn't want to think about it anymore. So he takes a five-year detour and buys a mine, and they're mining for iron ore. He spends a lot of money and it winds up failing after five years, but this is what he's doing at this time.”

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  8. “And this is a more positive interaction than the previous interaction with Alexander Graham Bell. So let's go to the book and learn a little bit about Thomas Edison and his friendship with Henry Ford. So now we're going to jump about 20 years ahead. So let's go back to the book. In 1896, when Thomas Edison first met Henry Ford, Edison was famous and Ford was not. If Edison failed to remember the encounter afterward, the likely reason is not self absorption but lopsided arithmetic. One luminary many strangers clamoring to meet him. The occasion was a convention of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies held at a beach hotel near Coney Island. Edison was attending in an honorific role, having sold off his electric light interest and thrown himself.”

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  9. “So we're going to go now this story takes place at Edison's Laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he spends most of his time before making the move to New York City. Work proceeded on the electric light at the same time. In July, the laboratory began experimenting with bamboo for a useless filament in place of cardboard. This created the need for bamboo hunters to search, to travel, and search out the varieties with characteristics most suitable for the purpose. The first bamboo hunter dispatched was John Segador, who was a laboratory staff member known for his fierce temper. His lab mates like to provoke him just for their own entertainment. On one occasion they were rewarded richly when Segador told this group The next man who provokes me I will kill him.”

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  10. “To chance insight and re combing bits of recently secured experience. This part is extremely important that Throughout the book They constantly hit on the point that you cannot plan what you're going to invent. You can have a general theme and a general direction you want to go to, but it takes a long time to invent things. That's why he dedicated so many hours of his life to it. And you need to tinker. So I love this one sentence. I love this sentence because it summarizes the relationship of Ball and Edison. Bell invented the telephone while tinkering with acoustic telegraphy. Edison invented the phonograph while tinkering with the telephone. So they both thought they were working on something else and it winded up being vastly different, both of which being inventions that we still use to this day.”

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  11. “What the book says is Edison was in the perfect position to realize the business potential in music, but he did not. Telegraphy remained his principal interest. Around the time of the telephone concerts he redoubled his efforts to complete a complicated contraption of thirty wheels that would convert taps on an alphabetic keyboard into unique vibrations for acoustic telegraphy. He did have a vision of delivering signals directly to households, but it involved sending the human voice not music. By attracting telephones to gasp, by attaching telephones to gas pipes that were already in place in the home, Edison thought it should be possible to use the gas instead of electricity as a medium for conveying sound waves.”

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  12. “So let me read that whole quote again mister Edison had been so often scoffed at that it had no other effect upon him than to stimulate him to increased study in labor. This goes back to his singular focus and his ability to just he so believed in what his own thoughts and his own interests that even though, again with great fame is going to come great criticism didn't really have an effect on him.”

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  13. “A command performance by Edison was quickly arranged and he headed to the White House, arriving around eleven o'clock that night. He showed off the phonograph for the president for about an hour and a half. His country asked still more of him. The first lady and several of her friends wanted a demonstration too, so Edison had to run through the routine still one more time, finishing at about two thirty in the morning. I just love that part. The second day brought even more attention. Edison and the phonograph were installed in the office of the Senate's Committee on Patents, and then the Houses Committee, attracting drop in visits from members and leaving Congress without a quorum for nearly an hour. So think about that. Edison was getting so famous and people were so excited about his inventions that he shut down Congress for an hour.”

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