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SPECIAL: Thomas Edison (Part 1)

My First Million

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Edison's Idea Was Brain Born

Edison's phone could pick a whisper from three feet away and transmit it 70 miles. He didn't really know the underlying physics and chemistry all that well, but he compensated for that by acting like a tinkerer. Most people spend more time planning and thinking than they do trying to work things out on their own.

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