Lindsey Graham

So we've spent a fair amount of time going through Edison's remarkable career, but I wonder what you might personally consider to be his most important invention or innovation.

Throughout his career, Edison was on the vanguard of several very different technologies, but almost always in communications.

And he could be compared to what we're experiencing now in Silicon Valley.

I wonder what you think of the comparison between entrepreneurial innovators of his age and ours today.

Well, Paul Israel, thank you so much for speaking with me today on American History Tellers.

That was my conversation with Dr. Paul Israel, director and general editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University.

He's also the author of Edison, A Life of Invention.

In our next series, as we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we explore the most extraordinary struggle in our nation's history, the American Revolution.

In the early morning hours of April 19th, 1775, British regulars marched on Lexington and Concord, and the shot heard around the world that day would change everything.

For the next eight years, American men and women would fight, suffer, and sacrifice in order to forge a new nation, one built on the idea that power lay with the people.

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