when thomas edison arrived, he asked to take a tour of the city and asked to take a ride in a contraptionled a car. the man who made cars affordable, henry ford was also there. former president teddy roosevelt had authorized the american effort to build the panama canal at the exposition celebrated. and franklin roosevelt attended as the assistant secretary of the navy. it was also a fair of firsts. first transcontinental telephone call. top speed 60 miles per hour. for the first time, an airplane flew at an exposition and for many people it was the first time they had ever seen an airplane. it was also the first time an airplane crashed at an exposition. three weeks after the fair opened, a dangerous stunt went wrong. san francisco's famed aviation pioneer lincoln beachy died when his plane spun into the beach. so a variety of motorists were around. people could take a motorized car, a motorized train or a flier. >>> buildings were never made to last. >> when the fair came to an end the walls of the beautiful dream city began tumbling down. what people tried to save and what remains. >>>

thomas edison once electrocuted an elephant to prove ac electricity was unsafe. we use it, by the way. the horseless carriage was once banned in cities. we drive cars right now. those flying contraptions. nobody said those were safe. this is the real world. find out how to deal with drones. don't ban them. >> i don't think you care about beer delivery, but what do you think about this? >> they've got to ban these drones federally before it becomes something you think you deserve like a dishwasher. these things are dangerous. there is some mechanism determining if you can fly one of these things safely. forget the potential terror problem. they are dangerous, a hazard and noisy. i don't think people should have as many cars. i think an unmanned flying vehicle doesn't deserve to be in the hands of all americans. >> you are a new yorker. >> i liken it to if you live in a nice apartment building, someone is responsible for making sure the paint doesn't peel and there's not things buzzing around the ceilings when you go to get your mail stuff like that. the united sta

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over here, we have the kinetoscope, and this is a replica of a kinetoscope that was invented by thomas edison'spany in about 1893. and what would happen is people would come up and they would pay 25 cents to see a row of 5 of these, and it would show about a minute-long movie. so, if you want to come around you can take a look in here. [ ragtime music playing ] >> wow! that's so cool! [ music continues ] that's so cool! what's next? >> let's go! so, over here, we have all the work and craft that goes into making special effects, so -- for things like "nightmare on elm street 4" -- but what, of course, i want to show you is yoda, which is very popular among teens and kids and adults. >> hi, yoda! [ laughs ] yoda looked so real, i thought he might actually wave back. next we stopped by the automated dialogue replacement booth. actors use rooms like this to fix movie soundtracks when there are problems with the original recording. >> my mom called us all the same. >> and what was that, dear? >> she called us all "babe." >> you have three lines to replace. first you'll rehearse. then you will recor

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another side of the thomas edison of our times that might just change every jobs notion you had. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. . neil: well, two weeks from today, you can place your order, at the biggest apple marketing gamble since the death of steve jobs will be on. let's say the clock will be ticking. how many iwatches does apple sell? what if it's not 10 million in the first year? are expectations so extreme that 8 million will be deemed extreme disappointment? that's the thing about being a category killer you get killed if you don't kill it all the time. and it all started with steve jobs who set in motion a company that choreographed success and single handedly made drama out of a simple product announcement. tim cook, this apple watch is his baby. his stev

thomas edison showed his off in 1879 by 1883 we had general electric.evision for better or worse. in 1927, america invented the laser. in 1960, the personal computer, and jazz, and baseball, and basketball, and america invented the cotton gin and the blood bank and the skyscraper and blue jeans. we have a lot to be proud of in terms of stuff we came up with before anybody else. america also, it might surprise you to know, invented the cocktail. we didn't invent booze. as soon as homo sapiens stumbled upon rot, we started figuring out booze for even the earliest civilizations on earth. it was in this young country of ours where we invented the cocktail. the spirit liquor water sugar or something sweet, bitters. the cocktail. we invented it in maybe 1800ish. i know just who to ask. after it was started here, we developed a new strand of culture how to drink and drink well. and that went along for a century or so unrivaled by any other nation on earth. but then we killed it dead on purpose. prohibition turned 95 this year. it holds this weird, unique place

the northeast high school in philadelphia known as the magnet middle school and thomas edison high school was built in 1905 it was a time when i get publicly funded preschool for the working class was progressive and controversial. structure like a medieval -- lions and gargoyles, northeast high school was a prestigious institution. albert einstein, babe ruth herbert hoover and amelia earhart were among the dignitaries who visited the school but as the minority population increased in the 1950s, it was decided build a new northeast high school anymore suburban area. the old school slip to get to to to to the systematic neglect. during the vietnam war of the former northeast high school at the distinction of having the most casualties among its alumni. i the 1990s it was infested with rats and falling apart. fewer than 50% of the math teachers to do basic math themselves. outburst of violence were, but. named the worst school it was taken over by a private contractor edison which was to provide education to edison built a new building and close the old one shortly thereafter in 2002 leavin

at the the shore right the now and you can see bright conditions there a lot of it courtesy of thomas edisonpoconos and we have a temperature of 27 degrees there and the the lights are on in a number of locations. we have a couple of snow showers that we can maybe find later on today. they should be light very whitely scattered. not everybody seeing them. i'm sure that is in the bad news to just about every within. thirty-seven in philadelphia. thirty-seven in wilmington. we have 34 degrees in trenton this morning. 332 the freezing mark and poconos at 24 degrees. there are a couple snow showers at the the airport in lancaster. some of this is hitting the ground. the thinks all light. it gives you an indication that something is out there, so you may be finding a little streamer with some of these strong wind of getting some snow showers. it the is not even out of the realm of possibility that the rain shower is in there as well. temperatures today will be getting to about we can take the s off, 40 should be about what it is. high pressure builds in tomorrow. sunnies out. temperatures are hig

he's going to be complicated like many people, like thomas edison, henry ford. >> what do you make of excerpt that suggests jobs and bob iger talked about buying yahoo! together. >> i know. >> of course kafrds yahoo! for a while. do you have any inkling that thing was being kicked around and in retrospect if that would have made sense or not. >> there was a time during that time period where yahoo! was in play with microsoft if you remember and so disney was one of the companies raised as not microsoft to buy it and so you can see that easily happening. it was pretty strong, it was much stronger five to tens years ago than it was today. it's a very different world. no snapchat, facebook not nearly as powerful and yahoo! would have been something like disney would have looked at for sure. >> reshaping the landscape of business, some of the decisions that took place at that white board, kara, the book also says that bob iger turned down a role on google's board because he was worried that steve jobs would take it too personally. how would things at google be different if iger would have

. >> to many steve jobs was a modern day thomas edison. >> today apple is going to reinvent the phoneonly half the story. what did you know about steve jobs that might surprise people most? >> what surprised me was how funny he was and pleasant. >> i was really surprised about the intensity of his close relationships. >> so close that when he needed a liver transplant in 2009 current apple ceo tim cook offered his but jobs declined. as for his reputation as a lone wolf the authors say jobs was a leader in the power of team work. >> you talk about how he used the beatles as an idea of how to run a company. what did you mean by that? >> it's that idea of brilliant people working together making up for one another's weaknesses and emphasizing their strength. >> they say it was his team who got jobs to focus on digital music instead of video. >> this amazing little device holds 1,000 songs. >> and let outside developers in creating iphone software and giving birth to the app store. >> he learned a lot after getting exiled from apple. when he came back he was a very different person. the y

we have things like the electric light that we know that nooms edson was so involved with -- thomas edison was so involved with. telephones, alexander graham bell. all of the major inventions were invented by american genius, not of very powerful corporations but of the american genius of the american people. and what we have always had, however is a situation where big guys did try to steal the creativity of the little guy. but in our country they couldn't get away with it. in our country, the philo farnsworths knew that they would be protected if they created something that uplifted their fellow man. so americans and american genius was put to work as never before in any country's history to make sure ordinary people and especially our working people in our factories, in our companies could be competitive with those factories and companies and the workers overseas. our people don't work harder than the people overseas. that's not what made us a great country. the fact is people work really hard all over the world, especially in third-world countries where people live in utter poverty. th