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

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Thomas Edison's Life and Work

After a year in Boston Edison took the big step and quit his day job which happened to be a night job. Resigning his position at Western Union to try to make his living as a full-time inventor of telegraphic equipment. So again one of the themes that this podcast is always going to constantly explore is that the names change the technology change the human nature usually stays the same.

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