Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
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🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Thomas Edison was a lot of things – genius businessman, incredible marketing guy, someone with an insane work ethic and no need of sleep. But he an inventor? Not so much. He and his team borrowed the light bulb, perfected it and mass produced it. Then his business and marketing skills did the rest.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, not trying to shock you, but Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Patty Steele. His brilliant use of someone else's ideas is next on the backstory. |
| 0:13.3 | Something about Mary Poppins? Something about Mary Poppins. Exactly. |
| 0:17.1 | Oh man, this is fun. I'm AJ Jacobs and I am an author and a journalist and I tend to get |
| 0:23.3 | obsessed with stuff. And my current obsession is Puzzles. And that has given birth to my new |
| 0:30.9 | podcast, The Puzzler. Dressing. Dressing. Oh, French dressing. Exactly. |
| 0:42.4 | We are living in the golden age of puzzles and now you can get your daily puzzle nuggets delivered |
| 0:49.6 | straight to your ears for 10 minutes or less. Every day on the Puzzler, short and sweet. |
| 0:55.3 | I thought to myself, I bet I know what this is and now I definitely know what this is. |
| 0:59.3 | This is so weird. This is fun. Let's try this one. |
| 1:03.9 | Listen to the Puzzler every day on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your |
| 1:10.9 | podcasts. That's awful and I should have seen it coming. |
| 1:17.7 | I'm Paul Muldin, a poet who over the past several years had the good fortune to spend time |
| 1:23.7 | with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney. We talked through more than |
| 1:29.4 | 150 tracks from McCartney's songbook and while we did, we recorded our conversations. |
| 1:36.9 | I mean the fact that I dreamed the song yesterday leads me to believe that |
| 1:44.2 | it's not just quite as cut and dried as we think it is. |
| 1:47.7 | And now you can listen to our conversations in our new podcast, McCartney, a life in lyrics. |
| 1:55.6 | It was like going back to an old snapshot album, looking back on work. I hadn't thought much |
| 2:02.3 | about for quite a few years. Listen to McCartney, a life in lyrics on the iHeartRadio app, |
| 2:11.5 | Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 2:19.0 | We're back with the backstory. I know there are a whole lot of inventions credited to Thomas |
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