In 1900, Thomas Edison was standing in lower Manhattan waiting to take a ferry back to Jersey City, N.J. The bustling, commercial neighborhood was overrun with horse-drawn carts. Edison, ever the ...
Most of us are familiar with the adage "a day late and a dollar short." But few of us are familiar with a Thomas A. Edison's invention that was 120 years ahead of its time. In 1902, Edison announced ...