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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:35 PM Mar 2012

What Did Thomas Edison Predict?

We’ve just about run out . . . too bad we didn’t pay attention to his words sooner.


Source: Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh [1987) by James Newton, p. 31.
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What Did Thomas Edison Predict? (Original Post) Playinghardball Mar 2012 OP
A friend of mine from college TlalocW Mar 2012 #1
Thanks for posting this. JDPriestly Mar 2012 #2
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Mar 2012 #3

TlalocW

(15,382 posts)
1. A friend of mine from college
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:48 PM
Mar 2012

Was as conservative as I was liberal to the point that when I noticed some cans in a sack on his porch and asked him if he was now recycling he said, "Hell, no! I give those to a guy in town who's down on his luck, and he recycles them." I told him he was recycling by proxy, and that made him mad.

Anyway, when the Insight came out, he made the funny that, "Cars shouldn't run on electricity because Henry Ford had a different kind of 'Insight.'" I remember telling him that a few years after he started, and when they weren't going on about how each of them hated Jews so much, Ford commissioned Edison to come up with an electric motor, and at one point Edison believed he was just a few years away from perfecting one. He was crestfallen.

TlalocW

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
2. Thanks for posting this.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:03 PM
Mar 2012

It's so true. But, the sunshine is free. The big bosses don't want us to be able to use things if they can't profit from them.

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