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Think of all the wisdom found after sundown. One of the greatest inventions of all--time--the light bulb--was undoubtedly discovered in the dark. Thomas Alva Edison obviously did not study at Harvard (or Yale for that matter) for he surely would never have ventured to find wisdom in the dark if he had been educated by our Mr. Dexter...
Military campaigns would have ended differently. George Washington, surveying his ragged forces at Valley Forge, would have surrendered. So would Winston Churchill in the early days of 1941. The march of industrial technology would have zigzagged. Thomas Alva Edison, after spending $40,000 to test umpteen hundred possible filaments for an electric light, would have shrugged and said, "I give up. Nobody will ever figure this...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Marilyn Alva/ St. Lucia and Bernard Diederich/ Santo Domingo
...Thomas Alva Edison, possessor of 1,093 patents, advertised with as much genius as he invented. The flyer for the early phonograph had a likeness of Uncle Sam, and the copy said, "Uncle Sam takes off his hat." Edison called the phonograph the Triumph. He made a million. -By Gregory Jaynes
When the Harvard offense works, it's not hard to understand why Alva Kelly, Restic's boss at Brown, told Harvard officials that Restic had "the best football mind in North America...