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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 Friendship With Henry Ford

Thomas Edison first met Henry Ford in 1896 at a convention of the association of Edison illuminating companies held at a beach hotel near Coney Island. He was attending in an honorific role having sold off his electric light interest and thrown himself into his mining venture so after he let me just interject here after he loses the battle with Tesla he's even though the electric light made him even more famous he decided he wasn't his passion and didn't want to think about anymore.

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