#HOW TO REVERSE IN EDISON FULL#

With the kind of relish and study that would exhaust most biographers, Morris evidently set himself the task of understanding and mentally replicating every one of EdisonвЂ™s scientific and engineering schemes.

#HOW TO REVERSE IN EDISON FULL#

вЂњOn a single day, when he was 40 and full of innovative fire, he had jotted down 112 ideas for вЂnew things,вЂ™ among them a mechanical cotton picker, a snow compressor, an electrical piano, artificial silk, a platinum-wire ice slicer, a system of penetrative photography (presaging radiology by 12 years), and a product unlikely to occur to anyone else, except perhaps Lewis Carroll: вЂInk for the Blind.вЂ™вЂќ Morris loved lists, curating them with expertise and wit.Д®dmund Morris evidently set himself the exhaustive task of understanding and mentally replicating every one of Thomas EdisonвЂ™s scientific and engineering schemes. There were many hundreds of inventions, and hundreds more Edison didnвЂ™t have time to complete or never thought through. EdisonвЂ™s volcanic brain and relentless drive spawned most of the conveniences we take for granted and the world of screens we inhabit today. In the late 19th century, the unschooled Edison was the mastermind of then-unimaginable, even magical, technologies that revolutionized society in his lifetime and ours: to name just the most transformative, the incandescent light bulb and the electrification of cities the phonograph record and the machine to play it the motion picture and the way to screen it. Edmund Morris died in May, but he left us with another extraordinary biography in 'Edison.' (Random House / The Associated Press)

How to reverse in edison