
Meet Thomas Edison: Ten Thousand Ways
Three months of schooling, 1,093 patents — and the invention that mattered most was the invention factory itself.
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Three months of schooling, 1,093 patents — and the invention that mattered most was the invention factory itself.

He stopped two national panics from his private library — on the strength of a handshake.

History's richest man started with a ledger recording every cent — and never stopped counting.

Bobbin boy at twelve, steel king at fifty — then he spent the fortune building 2,500 libraries.