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Electric City The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia by Thomas Hager
The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history—Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—and their attempt to create an electric-powered city of tomorrow on the Tennessee River.
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#electricity
#HenryFord
#ThomasEdison
#FordPlan
#utopia
started a #wikipedia article on Canadian-born US nurse, music therapist, lecturer, Edison representative, mapmaker (?!?!), Isa Maud Ilsen (1868-1937): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa_Maud_Ilsen @wikiwomeninred @wikimediaca #WWI #MusicTherapy #ThomasEdison #Cincinnati #ChimneyRock #Ontario
Mistodon: this #PETSCII portrait of inventor and businessman #ThomasEdison was drawn by @littlebitspace for the textmode art compo at the 2022 Edison demoparty, winning 7th place (and, critically, beating out his own competing portrait of Edison's rival Nikola Tesla.) This piece was included in the recent MIST1121 artpack collection.
#OnThisDay, November 29, in 1877, U.S. inventor Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time (depicted in Edison, the Man, 1940, starring Spencer Tracy)
> My problem comes when a particular genre of equipment – usually the latest gadget or system from commercial electronics – is proposed in a monomaniacal solution to the possibilities and problems of education. Symptoms of this derangement began with #ThomasEdison’s early 20th century dream of replacing school classrooms with #Kinetoscope motion picture theaters and have continued with wave after wave of flashy technological gadgets to this day..
#MovieEducation #EdTech #TechEd
#Chemistry #Lab, #ThomasEdisonNationalHistoricalPark, #WestOrange, #NewJersey
It's interesting to see the equipment and supplies Edison used for experiments to develop new products.
///prone.body.slick [what3words]
#ThomasEdison #History #Photography #Picture #OAA #OaklandArtAssociation
#TravelPhotography #Travel #WellTravelled #ArchitecturalPhotography #Interior #Laboratory #urbex
#Monday #PhotoMonday #MonochromeMonday #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #MastoArt #BnW #Monochrome #PhotoMonday
Machine Shop, #ThomasEdisonNationalHistoricalPark, #WestOrange, #NewJersey
My daughter told me about this place. The park is a large compound that used to be Edison's experiment shop near his home. He developed audio devices, rubber, and various machines here.
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#ArchitecturalPhotograpy #Industial #Interior #Machinery #ThomasEdison #NationalPark
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