>> his labs were really about one guy, thomas edison.'m creating a company that's about lots of inventors. i'm not on every patent. i'm not the only invent other here. >> patents are at the core of the business. in fact, he's amassed so much intellectual property, the press sometimes calls his company a patent troll. some people say hey, you know what, this isn't fair. nathan's out there acquiring all these patents on everything. how can i create anything when i ave to pay such heavy fees to company like yours? >> i think there are companies that have gotten used to not paying. they've gotten used to a situation where oh, a university owns that, or little start-up owns it. if a little start-up owns it, they'll never come after us, and that's ok, because we can stiff them. >> but as c.e.o., how much time does he actually get in the kitchen? >> most of the reason i dress like this and work like this is because i love doing it. >> when nathan can't be here, chef maxine takes over the place. he's the co-author of the cookbooks and walks us t

. >> do you see yourself as a modern-day thomas edison?g to do something slightly different. edison's labs were really about one guy, thomas edison. what i am trying to do is create an environment and company that is about lots of inventors. i am not on every patent. i am not the inventor here. >> but this place is not just about inventing. patents are at the core of the business. he has amassed so much intellectual property that the press sometimes calls him a patent troll. >> they say this is unfair, nathan is out there acquiring all these patents on everything. how can i create anything when i have to pay a heavy fee to a company like intellectual ventures because they have the patent on it? >> there are companies that have gotten used to not paying. they have gotten used to a situation where a university owns that or a little start up owns it. a start up will never come after us. so, it's okay. we can stiff them. >> as ceo, how much time does nathan really get in the kitchen? >> it is only a fraction of what we do. most of the reason i

patents are a-- after thomas edison patented his light bulb he was rolling in cash which he spent perfecting his greatest invention, thomas's english muffin which of course started as a failed attempt at a phonograph record. the best part is you don't need to invent the light bulb to receive a patent. because the cash generating rights have been granted to such actual inventions as the next fannie pack, three legged panty hose and the gerbil shirt. which innovatively combines a shirt, a gerbil hab i at that time and being alone for the rest of your life. best of all, best of all, even if your invention never makes a penny, accusing someone of stealing it can. because in 2011 alone unused patents generated $29 billion in lawsuits, legal fees and settlements worth hens or hundreds of millions of dollars. so in you have an idea, you work hard, some day you too can get sued by someone who had a similar idea. and folks, the patent game has just been elevated to an art form by amazon. who it was recently reported has been granted the patent for photography against a white background. you heard tha

thomas edison's film crew shot this film from the front of one of them.is film it's heading east from the cliff house through the sand dunes of what is now the richmond trick. one of the popular stops at the west end of that line was sutro baths. bob mackenzie took us to what are now remnants of sutro baths and recounted the glory of what they once were. >> reporter: it's a haunting sight this collosal ruins. people wonder what they are, those who do not work hard to find out are missing a great story. the industrial age was roaring full tilt and there was a sense that progress was inevitable. adolph suttro an engineer who had found a way to ventilate the coal mine decided he wanted to provide entertainment and recreation for his fellow citizens. when the ed son shot this film san franciscans could ride this train to the land's ends to the huge stretch of shore that now belong to adolph suttro. there they could stroll on the beach properly attired of course and breathe in the sea air that was considered a health treatment. on the cliff above the elegant c

in 1877, thomas edison designed the first machine capable of reproducing sound, and the process of acoustic recording was born. (recording) ♪ i love you. (fabris) the very first phonograph used tinfoil as a recording medium. at the time, he was working on improving alexander graham bell's telephone and was also trying to develop a recording telegraph, so he put these two ideas together in his mind and made essentially a recording telephone. if you were to walk into a recording studio in edison's era, there'd be no microphones. instead of a microphone, what was used was known as an acoustical horn or a recording horn. that was what captured the sound and transferred the sound waves onto the master record. ♪ is that a tear in your eye, dear? ♪ as the singer sang or a band played, the air in the room would vibrate and an acoustical recording horn would collect the sound waves, and these would be transferred through sound pressure down onto a cutting stylus which cut the sound pressure waves into the record. musicians really had to play for the recording equipment so you would set up the record

on the same side of the door to succeed thomas edison made short work of the big seven kevin on the same winning six mm on six for what. allowing the washington wizards beat the top seeded indiana pacers in their eastern conference second round series at them the wizards came out winners by one hundred and two points to ninety six from the field scoring twenty find the bad points. memories that made all six of his three point attempts as the wizards prefers to live in the best of seven series two reasons turned heads when they predicted target goals in just five games in the first round of the pic's in the second time in the second round since two thousand and five. still with basketball intending to run to the oklahoma city thunder has been named as the nba is most valuable player in the two thousand and thirteen fourteen season. your eyes won the mvp award effect on his senate career. i kneeled by a landslide after capturing his fourth scoring title in five seasons in leading the front of the northwest division title in the nba playoffs. in an emotional speech to run but it is climbed

and there was a competition in new york between thomas edison and george westinghouse as to who's form of electricity would be used alternating and edison was determined he didn't want his form of the current used in the death penalty because he was afraid it would discredit his form s succeeded experiments in the park to show how effective the former comment would be. when mentioning of the elephant or the hanging, so what he wanted to show is that westinghouse would be more effective. why do i tell you that? the new york state commission examined the electrocution and said it is a complicated thing. many of the people that are on deatwho are ondeath row are nott physical shape. some are radically overweight. it's hard to find a name. some are intravenous drug users. the american medical association doesn't want doctors performing lethal injection to even the ones that you imagine are being performed by relatively untrained prison personnel. it was so bad that they had to go to the growing area. so we can imagine and that's what this book tries to describe always trying to imagine the

thomas edison has more than a thousand patents. we know about his successes like the lightbulb.elegraph office. he lost money in a cement company and an iron business. henry ford's first company failed completely. dr. seuss' first book was rejected by 27 publishers. oprah was fired from her first job as a reporter. a tv station called her unfit for tv. so the moral to the story, go ahead and try something. it often brings money and happiness. happiness researchers say people who work for themselves tend to be happier than the rest of us. they work longer, but they're happier. now all business is risky. your first attempt probably will fail, but that adventure and ability to try something again gives people the power to prosper. that's our show. see you next week. i'm shannon g. >>> i'm chris wallace. an international effort to free hundreds of nigerian school girls kidnapped by islamic extremists. protesters take to the streets. sfwroo we want our girls. >> and the internet to express outrage over the abductions. as the world rallies what should the u.s. do? what is boko haram?

john: thomas edison had more than a thousand patents.ow about his successes like the lightbulb, but few people know edison failed much more often. he was fired by the telegraph office and lost money in the cement company and iron business. henry ford's first company failed completely. dr. seuss' first book was rejected by 27 publishers. oprah was fired from her first job as a reporter. a tv station called her unfit for tv. so the moral to the story, go ahead and try something. it often brings money and happiness. happiness, researchers say, people who work for themselves tend to be happier than the rest of us. they work longer but they're happier. now all business is risky. your first attempt probably will fail, but that adventure and ability to try something and try again is what gives people the power to prosper. that's our show. see you next week. see you next week. kennedy: oh, it is not hard to grow tentacle. so many political and cultural stories. take ukraine. authoritarian russia will use its military might to squash the upcoming

and there was a competition in new york between thomas edison and george westinghouse as to whose technology, whose form of electricity would be used; alternating current or direct current. and edison was determined that he didn't want his form of current used in electrocution, used with the death penalty because he was afraid it would discredit his form. so he did experiments in menlo park to see how effective westinghouse's form of current would be in execution. [laughter] and did a very famous and quite -- it's documented, you can find it on youtube. he executed an elephant. now, by the way, it always interests me that when i mention the execution of an elephant, i get gaffes. [laughter] what he wants to show was that westinghouse's form of current would be more effective and why do i tell you that? a new york state commission examined electrocution, and it said kind of about electrocution what you were just saying about, you know, we can put down animals and it's reliable. actually, executing a human being is a complicated thing. many of the people who are on death row are not in the bes

finding the right current to power southwick's electric chair pitted thomas edison and george westinghouseother. edison who actually opposed the death penalty admitted using westinghouse's alternating current to get the job done. the state called the process electricide. one of the first to be selected was convicted killer william kemler. after 17 seconds and 1,000 volts, he was convulsing and foaming at the mouth and smoke was rising from his body, but he wasn't dead. 2,000 volts later he finally died. "the new york times" called it an awful spectacle far worse than hanging. that didn't stop the death penalty either. nor did the electrocution of the rosenbergs or the notorious stories about florida's old sparky. we're back to questioning the means of execution. whether as unsympathetic as those subject to execution can be, we want to be in this gruesome business at all. that wraps things up for the reid report. i'll see you back tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. be sure to visit us, "the cycle" is up next. >> hey, how are you doing? joy, i hope you'll stick around. we'll talk about north carolina tod

one good point is america compared to your whole country allows failure and thomas edison had a thousand seuss submitted his books to 23 publishers and turned down. in america is okay to fail and try again. i started facebook. i really did. here it is. in my all male college, we published this book of all the girls's pictures. i thought this was a genius idea. we do know what they looked like. unfortunately, the internet didn't exist yet. >> why do you still be longer? john: i had to buy it on ebay. stuart: an all male school? you -- stuart: when you got a list of all the females and traveled to these schools. >> why wasn't it a success? john: it should have been a success. it would have been facebook. t you try again? >> i tried with television news. and to the girls are. stuart: that is what your show is about. john: a entrepreneurship but kohl's successes. stuart: you are not prepared to make the judgment, in decline in america because we offer this, we have this safety net. we don't like failure, we got this thing to fall back on so why take the risk in the first place? john: that ma

yearr: i graduated last from thomas edison state college. with a bachelor's in business management. have not been able to find a job. i've been out of work for five years and have not been able to find a job in five years. in the end higher time, including since getting my degree, i have not had any interviews. host: how old are you? caller: 52. host: you went back to school. caller: yes. i was an engineer prior to that. my plan was closed in 2009. host: how much were you getting paid? caller: $80,000 a year. tost: where did your plan go? caller: it was due to competition from china. i went back to school because i received a lot of retraining and financial aid from the government. i don't know a lot of student loan debt. lot of my colleges paid for. still, has not got me a job. host: what kinds of jobs are you applying for? caller: everything, basically. rejection notice from the company very close to my house that i had put in for the most basic level job that they have. opening that was specifically labeled as entry-level. in the job requirements come of a specified they wanted s

in oklahoma and now we're you know we're bringing back the electric chair which was you know thomas edison's deal to show how gruesome alternating current was that it burned the flesh off people when they were being electrocuted you know his whole point was how gruesome it was it was. let's make this a way of killing people you know he was having this huge you know pissing war with george westinghouse at the time about ac versus d.c. . and it's like isn't it time to really rethink the death penalty altogether you know i think the supreme court was partially right it is up to the states to make a determination i think you can't just have an arbitrary number but to say that because we had a botched execution because you know there's you know there because roommate is somewhat correct finding that we get rid of the diplomacy altogether let's go back to letting the states determine how they're going to deal with with criminals of you know large of a big scale capital murders or homicides whatever it is so it doesn't really have not demonstrated competence in the senate to using two data points t