The Quotable Edison
New through the University Press of Florida, The Quotable Edison! It’s a wealth of insightful, enlightening and sometimes humorous comments and witticisms from the inventor.
On religion: “Satan is the scarecrow of the religious cornfield.”
On the English: “The English are not an inventive people; they don’t eat enough pie.”
On the secret of his success: “I start where the other man left off.”
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The Florida Life of Thomas Edison
When Thomas Edison arrived in Fort Myers, Florida for a winter holiday in 1885, the Gulf Coast was an obscure place, beautiful and exotic but geographically isolated.
As a frontier community, it lagged behind the rest of the nation in everything from basic sanitation to transportation to lighting technology. It had no fashionable resort hotels, no cultural offerings, simply nothing to attract the traditional tourist.
What Southwest Florida did have was warmth and a quirky community Edison found so charming that he decided to build his winter home there. Most years until his death in 1931, Edison made the journey. Seminole Lodge, as his home was called, offered him peace and respite from the challenges of fame and pressures of business. In return, Edison brought fame to Southwest Florida.
Interesting Features of The Florida Life of Thomas Edison
*Maps and Illustrations
*Beautiful photographs
*Stories and annecdotes
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