Ted Leinhart
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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Notwithstanding the fact that the New Yorker was in the game and was doing his most speedy clip,
Edison wrote out the long message accurately, and when he realized the situation, was soon firing taunts over the wire at the sender's slowness.
his first patent it worked too well a year later edison received his first patent a machine for recording votes and designed to be used in the state legislature it was an ingenious device by which the votes were clearly printed and shown on a roll of paper by a small machine attached to the desk of each member
the invention was never used and mr edison tells with a comical twinkle in his eyes how amazed he was to hear on presenting it to the authorities that such an innovation was out of the question that the better it worked the more impossible it would be
for its use would destroy the most precious right of the minority that of filibustering the inventor thinks however that he received quite the worth of his trouble in the lesson taught him to make sure of the practical need of and demand for a machine before spending his energies on it
astray in the streets of new york in this same year edison came to new york friendless and in debt on account of the expenses of his experiments for several weeks he wandered about the town with actual hunger staring him in the face it was a time of great financial excitement
and with that strange quality of opportunism which one would think had been woven into his destiny he entered the establishment of the law gold reporting company just as their entire plant had shut down on account of an accident in the machinery that could not be located the heads of the firm were anxious and excited to the last degree and a crowd of the wall street fraternity waited about for the news which came not
the shabby stranger put his finger on the difficulty at once and was given lucrative employment in the rush of the metropolis a man finds his true level without delay especially when his talents are of so practical and brilliant a nature as were this young telegraphers
it would be an absurdity to imagine an edison hidden in new york within a short time he was presented with a check for forty thousand dollars as his share of a single invention an improved stock printer from this time a national reputation was assured him he was too now engaged on the duplex and quadruplex systems which were almost to inaugurate a new era in telegraphy
working twenty hours daily for fifteen years do you have regular hours mr edison i asked not long ago oh he said i do not work hard now i come to the laboratory about eight o'clock every day and go home to tea at six and then i study or work on some problem until eleven which is my hour for bed
fourteen or fifteen hours a day can scarcely be called loafing i suggested well he replied for fifteen years i have worked on an average twenty hours a day
That astonishing brain has been known to puzzle for sixty successive hours over a refractory problem, its owner dropping quietly off into a long sleep when the job was done, to awake perfectly refreshed and ready for another siege.
Mr. Dixon, a neighbor and familiar, gives an anecdote told by Edison which well illustrates his untiring energy and phenomenal endurance.
In describing his Boston experience,
mens sana in corpor sano mr edison's fine grey eye is the clearest i ever looked into and his fresh wholesome complexion and substantial though not by any means corpulent figure are not better described than by the stock phrase the picture of health
there is none of the lean and hungry look of the overworked student about him his face though strongly even magnificently chiselled is almost boyish in its smoothness and in his manner there is that flavour of perfect simplicity and cheery good-will given only to the very great
he is one of the most accessible of men and only reluctantly allows himself to be hedged in from certain interviewers of the base sort mr edison is always glad to see any visitor said a gentleman who was continually with him
except when he is hot on the trail for something he has been working for and then it is as much as a man's head is worth to come in on him the inventor describes himself as possessing only a fair amount of manual dexterity in the manipulation of machinery yet he generally controls with his own fingers the mechanism of his experiments
there have been associated with him during his working history two or three gentlemen who have materially aided him where a second brain and hand are needed these co-operative experiments have been carried on in a very pleasant atmosphere of camaraderie
how mr edison invents his genius comes near to justifying that definition of the word which makes it an infinite capacity for taking pains are your discoveries often brilliant intuitions do they come to you while you are lying awake nights i asked him i never did anything worth doing by accident he replied nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident except the phonograph
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