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And david ignatius. In a few minutes president carter will be in the next room signing his books. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] fort myers, florida on booktv. The city of palms, fort myers is noted for its beaches including. The river itself first became a boundary back in the 1830s and at that time we had the second seminole war going on. President Martin Van Buren has become very concerned about the cost of the war so he sent general alexander make room, who was the Commanding Officer of the entire United States army at that point down to florida with the orders t...

Been exposed that the problem can be dealt with. The regulatory process can do the things it needs to do which isnt necessarily introduce one new regulation. You see what happens with a very wellmeaning regulation. I think the two things that people in congress who are concerned with this issue and regulators should always keep in mind is that everything should be in the direction of increasing transparency, genuine transparency not the radical transparency where people will know what is happening rather than digging through 800 documents. Actual transparency and two being very sensitive to th...

Collecting plans from all over the world and had hundreds of thousands of people collecting plants and sending them back to fort myers to find a source of plant material that could produce rubber. The laboratory was put here because they could grow the plants on site and do the preliminary research on site. The laboratory was interesting for many reasons. There was no patent process for plants, chemical patenting. This lab caused the United States government to come forward with what was called the u. S. Patent law that said if you invented something with plants, and it was a process that was ...

Energy. I hope we dont have to wait until oil and coal run out until we tackle that. I wish i had more years left. Perhaps edison contributed to us the next best thing. It is described by historian ernest freebug in his book. While the electric light is not a natural subject for the computer history museum, i have invited professor freeberg because of his profound observations about the nature of invention and inventors. The lessons that he draws out speak across the decades to a time and place, here and now in Silicon Valley where edisons approach and the success it produces are quite familia...

That period of time. Wherein the Edison Research lab. It was very active until 1936. Hismary focus was life was built around the creation of electricity. The focus of that was new york city. His primary residence for the second half of his lifetime was just outside new york city in a little town called west orange, new jersey. He arrived in 1885 and it was a very cold winter. He stopped first in jacksonville and insane augustine. And in saint augustine. He built a home for himself and he built a home for his partner. They remained partners for a few years and then had their differences in edis...