Thomas Edison: America's Greatest Inventor | Biography Documentary
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This vintage film - originally titled as "The Story of Thomas A. Edison" - is a biography documentary about America's greatest inventor, Thomas Alva Edison. It was produced and directed by Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Robert Snyder (1916 - 2004), and distributed by the U.S. Information Service (USIS). Although the exact date is unknown, we can confidently say that the film was produced between 1953 and 1984. Edison was voiced by American actor Sam Raskyn (1911-1984).
Edison appears in the film from 25:14. We can see him talking to people, working in his laboratory, listening music and hiking with his good friends: Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, Harvey S. Firestone, the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, and John Burroughs, the naturalist.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
Edison was a prolific inventor, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. More significant than the number of Edison's patents was the widespread impact of his inventions: electric light and power utilities, sound recording, and motion pictures all established major new industries worldwide. Edison's inventions contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications. These included a stock ticker, a mechanical vote recorder, a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures. His advanced work in these fields was an outgrowth of his early career as a telegraph operator. Edison developed a system of electric-power generation and distribution to homes, businesses, and factories - a crucial development in the modern industrialized world. His first power station was on Pearl Street in Manhattan, New York.
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Thomas Edison: America's Greatest Inventor | Biography Documentary
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he was tha best inventor, better than you, ribshok!
Edison and his GE's frend are real thought scientist and inventor
Tesla changed the world, he was the great inventor.
Wrong. Edison did.
@@TerryUniGeezerPeterson I don't think so, read up on Tesla, quite the visionary.
@@TerryUniGeezerPeterson ignorant, and wrong. Without Tesla's stolen tech, Edison would have been forgotten, as he should be.
@@TerryUniGeezerPeterson where do you get off saying that? Edison didn't do anything but hire the actual inventors
Really? Because Tesla disagreed. He wrote consistently that Edison was a great man. And that he kind of wished he never had formal schooling like Edison. The rivalry you hear about is just a story someone invented to sell an image of Tesla. In actually they meet maybe once and got along well.
one guy came out with a idea was ignored ten years later a guy copys it and get credit for inventing it
Edison was a prick he'd buy companies one way or another and he'd transfer their parents to his name as if he invented it no he wasn't any good
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The documentary is amazingly made. I loved it. It is so informative. Thanks for bringing such an amazing Biography of Thomas A Edison!!
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It's not fair to hate on Edison but Tesla deserves more credit, both have contributed alot to modern world.
Indeed, it was a Trio : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, those 3 open the Modern Era for Humanity. Bravo and Well-done Forever for them !
Nikola is not scientist , zero proof nikola t. invented electricity. Credit based on what ?? Did you saw nikola t.'s coil light show ???
@@bazzhm1447 No ! not true, He had a PHD in Sciences and worked with and in Edison's company for years, also friend of G.Westinghouse, those 3 were friends and worked together.
Pls stop your s 0 c i a l i s t agenda sir 🙏😊 》Why westinghouse NEVER bulit nikola t.'s tower (source nikola's fans content) ? ? Instead revealing that fact , nikola's fans accused westinghouse competitor which are GE workers and Thomas A. Edison ???? The truth is JP Morgan received that letter and didnt put any attentions bcoz nikola's tower was build on westinghouse's property and ZERO CABLE for any power source underneeth 😅 btw Darpa build those internet networks , hardware and cables.
No it's pretty fair to hate on Edison. He took credit for everyone else's inventions
Imagine showing Tomas Edison an RGB LED
yeap.. that's a Mexican invention..the Mexicans are responsible for the color TV and the 3D Dimensions
360 inventions welded together !!!?!?!?!
Absolute badass
Intelligent genius clever of man he was
*America’s greatest theif*
ROBLOX KID
@@mortara79 it’s fax tho he ain’t even made it fr
That,the AMERICAN government and the federal reserve.
Whatever, but he brought products to the people (masses)
Was it your mind he stole? Because you don't even know how to spell THIEF?
Nikoli Tesla was/is greatest inventor EVER..!
John Bgoode amen
Yeah, Tesla was better at electrocuting millions of people who accidentally dropped electric gadgets into their bathtubs.
What year was this film made?
Thank you Tesla because your brilliant ideas
It's Thomas Edison
@@aroundtheworld2316 Thomas stole it from Tesla
@@aroundtheworld2316 Edison tried to discredit Tesla because he was losing the contract of his life because of DC and AC system. He's a freak too, he even tried to blame Tesla by electrocuting an elephant and codeveloped the electric chair to deface AC
@@aroundtheworld2316 Edison stole from Tesla, it’s something the school doesn’t tell everyone, at least not mine
@@iamamousee1182 We know, but believe it or not they give you a failing grade if you mention Tesla’s name when you are doing a report about Edison.
I was forced to wach this by my history teacher but i kinda liked it i little
Beginning ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊😊😊.
lies tesla was americas greatest inventor
Greatest Thief.
Thomas Edison was the Steve Jobs of his age; and I don't mean it as a compliment.
Based. And Tesla pilled.
Steve Jobs couldn't hold a candle to Edison. Imagine someone not only inventing the computer hardware, but the software, screen, keyboard and the internet. That was Edison inventing everything that went with the light bulb, records and movies.
@@youareright4917 When you say he invented things, you mean he made real inventors work for pennies and got the patents in his own name, right? Because that is what he did. You can google it if you dont believe me. It is public knowledge.
@@rasnac If the "inventors" who worked for him really did all the inventions why didn't they quit and set up their own lab? No, Edison had proven his ideas worked and he hired people to test and make them better. The world's first science lab was Genius and that was his idea. Tesla could produce power, but Edison gave us lights and entertainment.
@@rasnac You will admit that Edison invented the world's first stock ticker machine along with the world's first duplex and quadruplex telegraph machines before he designed and built the world's first Science Laboratory and the world's first phonograph. Those inventions prove his Genius. Tesla had his own genius inventions which nobody can deny.
Nikola Tesla was a Greatest Inventor
joseph swan hsitorical inventor oif the actual; light bulb. we use today. englsih chemist, relaitve told me
josseph swan was the one who light bulb invention is used today, edsion put the bit in to light it longer, tha tais all edison did. true
Good 👍
Edison pretty much invented the 20th century.
Nikola tesla is the greatest of all
Nope 😂😂😂😂
@@aroundtheworld2316 yup
Dude stop using many account to spreads lies. If nikola t was an inventor or even scientist. Why WESTINGHOUSE didnt build his tower , while nikola t build that tower on westinghouse properties ????
Edison ,wasn't a inventory he was a business man
Edison was a ruthless business man. Tesla was an inventor.
Not true.... , people in latin america using G.Ferraris coil and they developed it to more advances hardware. Even Tamiya Toys coil is not based on westinghouse works.
1000 failed experiments and 1001 was the light bulb. Edison seems to have been a copycat patent cloner.
If you steal a Tesla, does it just become an Edison?
Westinghouse was a more prolific and important inventor. Edison was a braggart.
@max marrero General Electric and Westinghouse corporation are big today.
So many fools like you on the bandwagon of ignorance that the Left proffers in order to denigrate the American culture..
@@yankee2666 You may want to read up about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla's history.
There is no utility in slandering the mans name. He may have made mistakes, but overall he aimed to lift humanity upward. He devoted his life to the acceleration of technological advancement. The legacy he left humanity far outweighs his wrongdoings.
@@1inchpine On what basis do you assert to know his motives?
"If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor."
Nikola Tesla
And look at whose company still exist today.
@Juan David Barahona Gonzalez I asked whose company still exist today? Who build an electrical company and still exist today? Tesla or Edison?
Come on, i'm not that stupid.
Darren Atm bruh... firstly edisons company didnt go out of business, secondly tesla wasnt made by tesla. Tesla was never a businessman.
Who ever called and spread nikola t's fraud biography and called him as inventor of telegraph , lightbulb , submarine trackers esspecially called him as scientist = complete racist s0cialist gl0balist. Based on "madeup story" about edison. Even jp morgan didnt accpet anything from nikola t. Bcoz nikola te§la wasNOT inventor of electricity , ac/dc , lightbulb , internet cables , or even coil (G. FERRARIS found first coil).
@@lazyboi2373 so truth
There is more than one Nikola Tesla. .. In this world
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Why is everyone Tesla, and how Edison allegedly “stole” from him? Edison and Tesla were both great inventors, Edisons means of *discrediting* Tesla weren’t great, but he never directly “stole” anything from Tesla. Edison’s genius was taking a new technology that someone else had pioneered and developing a superior way of doing the same thing, he never took credit for it.
Tomas Alva Edison was born in Mexico not in the United States he was Mexican also a student of the real light bulb inventor Jose Francisco Estrada Murguia..the color tv and the 3D dimension are Mexican inventions not US inventions..
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this is such a good video
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Why are you all hating on Edison, why can’t we appreciate both Tesla and Edison ?
indeed because what I am understanding and may be wrong about is Thomas Edison came in the United States where as Tesla was a European and for them to know of each other in a time of limited communication is almost a certainty so maybe there was an energy wave of invention and intelligence which happens from time to time and both were active in their pursuit of creation without knowledge of one to the other for it seems as if they would have both benefited from the work sacrifices and creativity of one to the other just my thoughts.
Thomas vi uh oh and it's the same the same the same in your life to live and I have been working with
I'm sure he stole a lot of great ideas
General Electric propaganda!
But it diffrent than nikola t fans scams and or misslead naratives which was spreads largely on many apps and yt (without any proof , only hate speech and words/thought).
🗑 Nikola T's fans at holyw00d had been made a huge crimes networks arround internet apps.
those Nikola's fans video are s0cialist gl0balist propaganda. You simply want to stole capitalist advancement and inteligent manufacturer. Bcoz T. A. Edison = electrician , inventor and manufactures builder.
America's greatest scammer i guess 🤣
funk!..
Thomas Edison was a genius. Anyone who knows how to take an idea and turn it into a fortune is a genius.
tesla was way ahead bro, edison may be smart but tesla is the real genius
🙏Mr Stefan... Nikola T. wasnot an inventor or even scientist. Some people loves his light show. But he wasnt even related to tesla company (elon musk didnt even know him 😅 😅). Pls do your research🙏. All contents made by nikola t.'s fans on internet & holyw00d are completely misslead naratives (only words , thought and scams 🗑). Nikola t never build internet network , hardware , company and or tower (JP Morgan didnt even know what was the tower function , bcoz there was no source of power). Nikola T. never find or invent first coil (G. Ferraris) , he never found first or an advance generator. But recording motion picture invented and founded by Thomas Alpha Edison 😊. Thomas A. Edison with his frends at GE successfully introduce their products and manufactures to the entire govt beyond usa.
@@vsk202 no
@@mke344yes
Greatest inventor my ass
That’s so sad
the man who invanted light
Yyyyyyyyh
Didn't Thomas killed elephant?
Nope... nikola t wasNOT invented car or even telegraph and internetcables. Nikola t' never related to tesla company , bcoz he was a generator builder and tesla awards never disscussed about any communications & electric car invention , bcoz nikola t not even a scientist (🙏😊😊😊😊)
Those woke liars cant proof anything bcoz you just denied that electricity get into your apartement and or house by implementation of T. A. Edison 's inventions and GE manufaturer geniuses
A BITTER MAN OF HIS TIME.
And stole ideas
And basically ruined someones life.
You seem to be a "bitter man of your time." Sad.
Too bad we weren't taught the truth.
And now, they are doing it again. On steroids
Edison my have been a thief but sadly , winners write the history
Edison was a thief, or had a team of inventors doing all the work whilst he took credit for it. He had the name and the financial backing, he was a dishonest businessman, not a very good person. Tesla was the best inventor/scientist in modern history.
hi sally why you think so . we admire him and his works. have you any proof to prove your idea
G F Thank you so much for the support, it’s so very kind and not something I get often anymore! I’m very grateful! It breaks my heart to know what Edison did to Topsey and the other animals. It’s pure evil! All of that to ruin a man who was a better inventor. Most people only recently learned of Tesla, that’s how badly Edison destroyed him. I knew about Tesla since he’s from the same area as me, Croatia. I live in the USA now.
I’m sure you know G F, but for others who do not: It’s very common in the scientific community for the lead scientist to get credit for a discovery, even though it was made by a less known or seasoned scientist in the group. It even goes on today unfortunately. So Edison was really just good at copying and sending the invention to the patent office and had the $ to fight any lawsuits. That’s just the way it goes sometimes. Look at the show shark tank, the name is correct indeed!
UltimateReality Ok, then why did the FBI (trumps uncle was one of them) instantly collect many boxes of Tesla’s work as soon as he died? If he was a nobody the us gov wouldn’t have cared about his inventions. Why is there a car company named after him? You’re horribly mistaken in your judgment.
Sally Mel not even that Edison killed an elephant
mohammadhosein bahmani65 he killed a damn elephant and stole from Tesla WHAT MORE DO U NEED
i bet your ass he didn't invent that light bulb
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I know how.
Heh, now we know better
This is the Ohio that naive people make fun of
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Nikola Tesla For The Win.
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My teacher told me that Thomas Edison was the best inventors in the world and now I think about it I feel like my teachers are just doing it for some quick cash tho it’s maybe not their fault but maybe the teachers who are fans of Thomas Edison are maybe not doing it for the money they maybe trying to make us believe he’s the best person who invented stuff
I mean, the school itself could've made that teacher say that.
Although the school probably refuses to teach about Nikola Tesla.
The God Of Nothing must be the damn government
He sure was
@@Anonymous-cm8jy wdf did i made this comment
This is a total lie. He was the greatest patent thief a shill
Edison invented 1000 more good things for the world than the atomic bomb mad scientist Einstein who admitted later, "I should have been a plumber."
The ancient black Egyptians were the true founders of modern electricity generation signal reception and transmission as well as the light bulb this is a fact
This is one of the biggest conman EVER, he didn't invent the light bulb, someone else came up with the idea & Mr. ED bought the patent & threw his name on it.
What he did to Nikola Tesla by conning him to make the electric motor work, Eddie didn't have a clue & told Tesla if you do it, you get $50,000 bonus well the electric motor was born & what did Mr. ED do, laughed at Tesla & said , welcome to America. Tesla got em back it's called alternating current & gave 18 patents free to Westinghouse. This tells a lot about Edison. Now let's jump to when he moved to a mining town as you can guess people thought he could come up with inventions to help mining, nope he didn't have a clue & I'm sure he wrote letters & wired them people, but he burned so many bridges, nobody helped him anymore in the end he was a dismal inventor a wannabe, but if you have money you can buy it & patent it. Im sure from his past he didn't invent anything great,, someone else did the work & he took the credit. P.s. Mr ED lights after 90 years are still working, & we know light bulb don't last but a few 100 hours, The biggest joke played by this conman was he was a great inventor, yeah right in a pigs eye he was.
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edison the thief of labor...... TESLA the best....!!!
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Edison was a great nvdntor but he was greedy and evil.
You said thay by Only words , thought and s0cialist Nikola T's fans propaganda. Your tower is not destroyed by JP morgan, it was an empty construction frm the begining. What a big scams cultures.
You´ve spelled "Elephant killing, greedy thief" in the title wrong!
Oh watch out, Tesla fanboys incoming.
Darren Atm *cough, cough* wireless!
Well said!
"If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor."
Nikola Tesla
oh watch out edisonofiles still exist...
Wireless electricity is impossible to modern physics. I agree that Tesla's vision is great, but it is impossible.
Also, i respect both inventors. Edison improves, not steal. Otherwise you gotta accuse any scientist who improved existing designs as thieves.
Like James Watt vs Newcomen or something.
tomas Alva Edison was born in Mexico and not Ohio. there is evidence that he was born in Zacatecas. There are letters that he sent to the town where he was born
LOL! What you smoking? Show the evidence.
@@youareright4917There are many evidences the birth certificate there is a house with a plaque where it says that there he was born
@@maxpower9572 Well I just made a plaque that says Alexander the Great was born in my house. So it must be true. We need more evidence than a plaque.
Greatest? More like OVERRATED!
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Cut your electric cords and remove all switches, fuses, lights and wiring from your home and business. Then throw out all recorded music, words, movies and shows. Those were just a few of Edison's inventions. The Science labs used by universities and businesses originated with Edison too.
@@youareright4917 lol you use DC in your house?
Edison may have been a great inventor, but he sucked as a human being. Especially how badly he screwed over Tesla.
If you think Edison was bad, you should have been with Alexander the great when you wanted to go home after hundreds of battles. He killed those who tried. Edison was the genius of the 19th century and of all centuries prior to his birth.
Like everything called "American"... It'd rather european or russian. Tesla was smarter...
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