thomas edison? he didn't get any subsidies.s because of the united states spending on the internet that made apple apple. >> bill: well jobs is jobs and edison is edison. >> slightly different era. >> bill: did you see the brilliant talking points did i yesterday on the unbelievable amount of corruption in the spending process? did you see that? 27 until in morocco to teach them how to make alberto are you all for that? >> you can go through now let's not forgot that i may be for that for ghana. >> not morocco. >> guana is okay? >> you can go through the budget. i have been through it for years and years and years. and they are ridiculous line items. >> bill: why doesn't the president do that? >> you total them all together and they don't. >> bill: $400 billion a year. >> in what? >> bill: duplicate programs and waste 400 billion. can you knock it out o. >> from o'reilly talking memo. >> bill: from our analysis. 400 billion you could knock out, a year. >> if i were you i would send your analysts back to school. >> bill: come on

. >> thomas edison used to take naps. curl up on the lab table. of course, he was there 24/7 but used to take naps. >> that is to rick's point. he is working around the clock. i understand that. if you you have a policy, a blanket policy that means you will have is slackers already napping on the job. there are so many ways to get around napping on the job. advice to go out to your car. advice that the computer click sounds coming off the computer so you can nap in the cubicle. ways to go to office parks outside to sleep. i mean all of these ways are already happening that is my point. >> rick is there never a time for this? this is this week particularly when we lost an hour of sleep because of daylight savings time. >> to be serious about this. here is what i don't understand. the reason you do bring people to an office is to interact and work together. if person a is taking a nap when person b is trying to get work done that needs that person you are stopping everybody from getting the work done. >> sounds like it makes sense. >> oh, my goodnes

he was like the thomas edison of i don't know what but i don't care. i just don't care. were a camera man for him. >> no, i just dressed like i was. >> i know it is a disappointing trend. women are getting less wild. we gave women the vote in 1920 they went (bleep) it is it a steady increase and boiled over and women are geth less wild. we need to do that and allowing them in combat is not going to do it >> what are you talking about? >> that's what i am thinking. >> way, i think you are on to something. maybe they will stop stroting now. >> it is a terrible thing to say. >> and speaking of food. they can do better than we can in kitchen. you ever look back and say what a missed opportunity? >> no, i do not. when i spoke at strict a coupev of years . the student newspaper that is brighter than the harvard. asked me for advice and i said please stop taking your tops off. >> it was the grinning of end for modern city. it used to be they were the girls that posed nude. >> it is sweet. those guys are not from smith. they are from florida state. >> and next topic. egyptian pr

. >> thomas edison was an american original holding patents in his lifetime from botany to the phonograph. no other american inventer has more. collected papers at rutgers university number 5 million pages, and scholars worked on them since 1978. his final laboratory in west orange, new jersey, occupied 21 acres, and it is now a national park. on exhibit there, among other things, is his personal desk with a pigeon hole labeled "new things," crammed of papers and notes of ideas he never got to. we know at least what one idea might have been because near the end of the life, he would put his money on sun and solar energy, what a source of power. i hope we don't have to wait out until oil and coal run out to tackle that. i wish i had more years left. perhaps he contributed to us the next best thing. it's in the electric light and invenges of modern america. while the light is not a natural subject to the computer history museum, i invited professor freeberg to have the conversation because of the profound observation about the natures of invention and inventers. the lessons he draws out spe

i actually talk about thomas edison and the book. of course, you know, the inventor of the century, you know, he was hailed again the same issue with our franklin as he raised the issue is so high people thought of tinkering he almost seemed otherworldly but i tell the story in my book the invention of the device in this photo which didn't end up being a dictation machine. it was actually a photograph. she came up with a photograph the was workable and relatively easy to produce. but he hated music and couldn't fathom why anybody would want to listen to this device and spend their time it didn't make sense to him so he spent a number of years pursuing what he thought was the market for this device which is an office dictation and it didn't work out well for him, he had other success but he never made much money off of the photograph and they didn't understand how electricity worked at that point so they just regarded it and when they call them the wizard of menlo park they thought he was a wizard. he represented a sort of the connect

up next, alec foege talks about modern-day thomas edison and ben franklin. his book is "the inventor and the tycoon: a gilded age murder and the birth of moving pictures." this is is about 50 minutes. >> i hope i can live up to the introduction. i would like to say it is such a privilege to give a talk about my book. the westport library has been a real innovator in terms of agreeing it was just sort of a coincidence that brought us together thank you to bill for helping make this all happen. as was mentioned in the introduction, my book is -- it is partially about what is going on in tinkering right now in the contemporary world. but it also touches on history. but more specifically talks about what the ideas behind being a tinkerer on her. and what is it tinkerer? and how is that different from being a hacker? typically the term has a negative connotation. you kind of think of the old crackpot not really knowing what they were making in the basement, but you are sort of having fun with your parts. but in fact, that is kind of the heart of what tinkering is

this is about an hour. >> thomas edison was an american origin. he held 1,093 patents in his lifetime in everything from botany to the phonograph. no other american inventor has more. his collected papers at rutgers university number five million pages. scholars have been working on them since 1978. his final laboratory if west orange, new jersey, occupies 21 acres and is now a national park. on exhibit there, among other thing, is his personal desk that includes a pigeon hole labeled, "new things," which is crammed full of papers and notes on ideas he never got to. 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 don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. i wish i had more years left. perhaps edison contributed to us the next best thing. it's described by historian ernest freeberg in his brilliant new book "the age of edison." while the electric light is not a natural subject for the computer history museum, i've invited professor freeberg to have today's conv

once on a trip to new jersey it was the town of thomas edison. he was a young tycoon. he had invented the phonograph, delivered to houses, he is a laboratory and employees. he says, tell me how you did what you did. what is the engineering behind it. show me the apparatus. and muybridge says, yes, and we should work together. we can make this device that i could better. maybe we can add sound to it and we could have something really exceptional. muybridge leaves. edison studies the material. he assigns his staff engineers to work on the problem of making a motion picture camera. just by chance, this is now 1889, a material called celluloid has been invented. george eastin in new york has created this, allowing you to put hundreds of pictures on a long strip of film. whereas muybridge was able to only photograph 21 pictures in a row. he uses this film strip and there is a device that he calls the scope, it is known as the nickelodeon of sorts. it runs 32nd clips of film. getting people to drop money into these come and watch women dancing, horses running, things like th

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lennon to paul mccartney at the time of the beatles' breakup, plans for the light bulb drawn by thomas edisons handwritten by dwight d. eisenhower. the most popular item is a letter that marilyn monroe wrote to her acting teacher, describing her increasingly desperate mental state, including the passage quote, i'm still lost. i mean, i can't get myself together. i sound crazy but i think i'm going crazy. it's an amazing collection the likes of which we will probably never see again, mostly because, well, people just don't write letters anymore. somehow i just can't picture future auctions offering alec baldwin's e-mails or chevy chase's voice mails or kim kardashian's tweets. you want to see a piece of actual history in person, the items will be exhibited april 8th through 16th at douglas elements gallery in new york city and you can buy them at profiles in history on may 30th. thanks for being with me tonight. coming up next, an anderson cooper special report. ♪ keep on going in this direction. take this bridge over here. there it is! [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. [

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i also talk about thomas edison.ury, he was hailed as the wizard of menlo park. the fraught -- probably the same issue that he raised the bar so high with people thought of tinkering seemed other worldly. but i tell the story in my book of the intention of the device in this photo that was not the office dictation machine but was the photograph. he came up with the first one that was workable and easy to produce but edison hated music and he could not fathom why anybody would want to listen to this device and spend their leisure time listening to music. it did not make sense to him. he spent a number of years pursuing the real market as the office dictation machine. but the phonograph did not work out that well. he had other successes but he never really made much money off of the phonograph. it is interesting to think of that the time and people did not understand electricity so they just regarded it as magic they really thought he was a wizard. but he represents the connection between the origins of tinkering in th

thomas edison would not figure out how to do that for many decades to come but in my mind's i i can envision a movie trailer, of those clever things calling this to sell us an upcoming movie and the highlight would have to include the battle of baltimore, a crucial conflict for the citizens of the city, resisted both the land and sea ports, bombardment of the royal navy observed by a sometime poet who was held captive on a ship in harbor. he recorded what he saw in a poem titled in its first publication the defense of henry. but someone else in put it to music and renamed it the star spangled banner. we would have to see oliver hazard perry with the smoke of the battle of lake erie still in the air jotting a note to the secretary of war in pencil on views on the love he pulls from his pocket. we have met the enemy and they are ours. remember the words. most dramatic of all for my money would be dolley madison on august 24, 1814. we glimpsed the battle where the british route the american militia a few miles from the capital with rockets flying through the air, spirited british charge that by

on october 22, 1879, thomas edison's laboratory at the first successful electric light.of hard work. and it lasted 13 and a half hours. within a few months, edison had hit upon using carbonized bamboo. and the first practical light using carbonized bamboo lasted 1200 hours. here's what edison said. this is the spirit we launched, -- lost, which seemed determined to avoid thinking about, edison said, quote, we will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. [applause] you know, i want to tell you, i've been trying for two and a half years to get the house republicans to understand the they control every committee and subcommittee in the house. they could be having a hearing every week on the future in every single committee and subcommittee. they could be contrasting the various and sundry bureaucratic candles that are trapped in a world of light with all the breakthroughs of new science and technology. and it is virtually impossible to get people in washington, d.c. to actually learn how to think about a new world. and i commend all of you -- [applau

steven jobs, henry ford, thomas edison. they didn't work for anybody. they weren't under the thumb.but at some point, truly, you have to stop these programs. you have to let things normalize. because on a day like today, when the numbers improve, interest rates need to go higher. they need to be the throttle valve on the economy. you can't micromanage a $16 trillion economy. nobody can. that's the horrible lesson we learned under alan greenspan. back to you. >> rick, great stuff. just great stuff. we'll talk to you soon. rick santelli in chicago. italy's stock market facing some headwinds. there could be a bubble forming in the ferrari market. prices already getting -- this is hard to believe, 10 million for one car. >> really? >> and another big auction this weekend. we're going to look at the possible prices for the newest round of prancing ponies in a moment. [ kitt ] you know what's impressive? a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever th