Thomas Edison
Why history’s most famous scientists are usually a bit weird
Obsessed with work, insensitive, socially detached, and neglectful of family and friends — these may not be the most endearing qualities in a person, but they are just a few of the common characteristics a researcher found when studying some of the world’s most famous and prolific inventors.
How Thomas Edison Illuminated Modern America
The 1893 Columbian Exposition introduced the United States as an industrial power on the world’s stage. Americans flocked to Chicago to ride the world’s first Ferris Wheel, to hear Frederick Jackson Turner lecture on his frontier thesis and, perhaps most of all, to see electric light for the first time. As the exposition opened on May […]
