A MAN who claims to have been the island’s fastest junior cyclist in the 1950s is keen to make contact with people he used to ride with more than 70 years ago.
no one knows. but the other question is, what exactly did he do? and there has been a great deal of coverage. and i didn t want to add to that whole literature. but what i have tried to do is to go into his company, and i ve had interviews with a number of the players in that company to try to find out what was unique about that company that he built. what was unique about it that enabled it to double oil production within four short years, how was that done? and so you ll find there s a chapter on that side of the story. and then lastly, i have to say that this is a story of guilty love, which i ll come back to if you ask me. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. and now, ernest freeberg recounts thomas edison s creation of the incandescent lightbulb b in 1879. this is about an hour. thomas edison was an american origin. he held 1,093 patents in his lifetime in everything from botany to the phonograph. no other american inventor has more. his coll