CSPAN3 History Bookshelf October 26, 2014
He held 1093 patents in his lifetime. In everything from the botany to the phonograph. His collected papers at Rutgers University number 500 pages scholars have been working on them since 1978. On exhibit there, among other things, is his personal desk. It includes a pigeon hole labeled new things. Which is crammed full of papers and notes on ideas he never got to. We can know at least what one of those idea might have been near the end of his life, he said i put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power, i hope we dont have to wait until oil and coal run out until we tackle...