#267 Thomas Edison

There were other notable American inventors in his time. But they were more usually lonely. Troubled souls. And his personality outsone theirs.

By nineteen twenty nine. Two whole generations of Americans had grown accustomed to watching the progress of this self educated man who worked in a laboratory that had its windows virtually open for To all of the world. He had known how to dramatize his inventions. He had known how to gather interest.

Faith. And hope. in the success of his projects. He typified the independent Lone handed inventor of the nineteenth century's heroic age of invention.

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