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#3 The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented The Modern the Modern World

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The Battle of the Currents by Thomas Edison

After Edison's return home the press added new expressions to the lexicon of high high-graphy having been honored by the most distinguished men in the country. The New York Sun said Edison had received more attention than if Robert Fulton Sir Isaac Newton our Galileo had appeared but need Edison's unassuming appearance a reporter for another paper sensed else something else hiding beneath his hat a Kingley crown. There's all these anecdotes in the book about him interacting with these people that come to be famous in their own right now I want to talk to you about the relationship he had with somebody that's also super famous that you're going to recognize their name is Alexander Graham Bell and they were both rival inventors

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