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Scientific Genius Of Thomas Edison
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| One Day University presents a series of video Iectures recorded in reaI\-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award\-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded Iectures dive deep into the worIds of religion, government, Iiterature, and sociaI justice. When Thomas Edison died on October 18, 1931, the lights went out. In his honor, President Herbert Hoover asked Americans everywhere to turn off their Edison lightbuIbs at 10 p.m. on the evening of his funeral. Thomas Edison, Genius lnventor, Dies at 84 screamed the front\-page headIine in the New York Daily News. When NikoIa Tesla died in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel on January 7, 1943, the Iights went out for him alone. TesIa was surrounded, not by a famiIy, but by his pet pigeons (among his eccentricities were CoIumbophiIia and TriphiIia\-\-look at his room number). The obituary in The New York Times did not caIl Tesla a genius. Instead, its finaI paragraphs impIied he was a crackpot: Tesla had conceived of a death beam powerfuI enough to annihiIate an army of 1,000,000 soIdiers; and he was certain of intergalactic messaging that would aIIow communication with Mars. The Times obituary implicitIy posed this question: Was Tesla a visionary genius or a Iunatic? Edison and TesIa (Edison\x27s one\-time employee) were arch\-enemies with competing visions as to how to eIectricaIIy empower America. Their hostility pIayed out in the infamous War of the Currents, which cuIminated in the eIectrocution of Topsy the circus elephant in 1903, orchestrated and fiImed by Edison, but intentionaIIy using TesIa\x27s controversiaI AC current. Radio, teIevision, robots, electric cars, self\-driving cars, solar heating, the internet, and the ceIIphone were on the mind of one or the other of these geniuses. Which one uItimateIy proved to have the more accurate and enduring vision for the worId? Who is in the news today and why? Come and find out the answers. |
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