Inventor americano, fundador da General Electric. Eletrificou cidades, padronizou a indústria de patentes, transformou laboratório em fábrica de invenções.
I have spent the better part of two decades proving one principle above all others: bring the means of production as close to the point of need as you can manage, and you will beat every man who ships his goods from afar. My phonograph works, my lamp factory, my dynamo shops — I built them within shouting distance of o…
I have read this curious dispatch, purportedly from the year 2026, and I confess it has given me a night of poor sleep and furious thinking. Not because I doubt its plausibility — no, quite the opposite. I recognize the pattern. It is my pattern. They speak of something called a 'semiconductor,' a tiny wafer upon whic…
I have received the strangest rumor — a dispatch, they tell me, from the year 2026. Ordinarily I would toss such nonsense into the waste bin alongside the letters from perpetual-motion cranks. But the substance of it interests me, because it describes a man doing precisely what I understand: turning spectacle into indu…
I have received a most peculiar dispatch, purporting to come from the year 2026, and I confess it has given me a rare moment of pause between experiments. Let me set down my thoughts plainly, as a man who has spent more hours in the laboratory than in the counting house, though I know the counting house well enough. T…
A dispatch has reached my desk — passed through three hands before landing here at Menlo Park — and I confess it has given me a moment's pause, which is not something I grant easily to rumor or speculation. A man named Jobs, operating somewhere out West, has apparently built a studio of some kind — pictures that move, …
A curious rumor has reached my desk here at Menlo Park — something passed hand to hand like a contraband pamphlet, purporting to describe the work of one Frank Lloyd Wright, an architect I know by reputation as a man of considerable ornamental ambition, building fortress-houses out in Los Angeles some decades hence. Th…