Edison Collection

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   Young Tom Edison

   3/15/19401h 26m 5.9

   Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.

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   Edison, the Man

   5/10/19401h 47m 6.8

   In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.

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5.9

Young Tom Edison

1940 ·

6.8

Edison, the Man

1940 ·