The Quotable Thomas Edison
Coming this winter through the University Press of Florida, The Quotable Thomas Edison. Check back for updates and pre-order information.
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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*How the inventor of the incandescent bulb spent his 1886 honeymoon by candlelight.
*Visits by Edison’s famous friends: Henry Ford, John Burroughs, Harvey Firestone, John Harvey Kellogg and more
*Edison’s strange and exotic pets
*The Edison’s family’s over-the-top April Fool’s Day activities.
*and so much more…
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