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November 26, 2003

Edison

Posted by bopuc at November 26, 2003 05:05 PM

Kate over at Montreal City Weblog points to some film footage Thomas Edison took in Montreal in 1901.

Watching it I thought to myself: "Could this genius, in his wildest dreams, for one second, conceive that here I would be, a mere century later, watching this footage, probably filmed a mere mile or two from where I now sit, using a handful of technologies that he himself discovered, sparked or improved?"

Looking around me, pretty much everything I see has been touched by Thomas Edison.

Thank you sir!

Comments

Tesla kicks Edison in the nuts. It's kinda like Apple vs Microsoft.

Posted by: Dav at December 3, 2003 01:35 AM

Posted by: Jim OConnell at December 4, 2003 11:02 PM

do you have another url, the original url the clip was at seems to be down?

Posted by: mic at December 6, 2003 07:33 AM

Then "Thank you too, Mr. Tesla!" ;)

The Library of Congress links, which as of right now work for me still are:
Montreal Firemen:
http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/edmp/1717.mov
Duke of York visit:
http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/edmp/1999.mov

Cheers!

Posted by: Boris Anthony at December 6, 2003 01:57 PM