generally we have this large picture on display, which is a picture of the day thomas edison and henry ford came to visit lisa burbank. ford wanted to come because they want to see these great things burbank had. they shared a similar strategies in doing their work. mr. ford was inventive and creative. they walked among the gardens together. mr. burbank showed him his own methods of mass production. henry ford was around his mass production line. version was to bring thousands of plants so he could find the few that had mutations and the use those mutations to develop new plans for his work. -- it was the meeting of three geniuses. mr. edison and shared similar methods. they were more of trial and error. the teat of men were contemporary and similar in age. although mr. edison was able to , he and burbank were both inventors and their own way. ford and edison were impressed and creditedank this visit with helping to inspire them to create the horticultural preserve that they created in florida. they created their own experiment garden to try to rubber the first type of that could be pr

he would also see some technological innovations, like a dictaphone which was invented by thomas edison but was used by london because it allowed him to dictate letters without him having to write them longhand. he, his wife, and his manservant could all work in here at the same time, whether it was working on books, correspondence, or farm. he was very productive here. in fact, 2/3 of his work was published after he moved here. books like "white fang" was published here in 1906, a year after he bought his ranch property. "little lady of the big house" was published while he was here. he would write 1000 words a day before breakfast, but a lot of time was spent because he was trying to build the beauty ranch, the ranch of good intentions, so that it could be a model, and that took a lot of his time. one of the elements that he sought to perfect in order to help people was to create a much more productive ranch, a much more productive farm, so that people could be said, people -- could be fed, people could have jobs, and people could be more successful. a lot of what he was doing was exp

also see some technological innovations, things like the dictaphone, which had been invented by thomas edison but was used by london because it allowed him to dictate letters without him having to write them longhand. he, his wife, and his manservant could all work in here at the same time, whether it was working on books, correspondence, or farm. he was very productive here. in fact, 2/3 of his work was published after he moved here. books like "white fang" was published here in 1906, a year after he bought his ranch property. "little lady of the big house" was published while he was here. jaclyn and claims that he works two hours a day writing, and he wrote 1000 words a day before breakfast, but a lot of time was spent because he was trying to build the beauty rants, the -- beauty ranch, the ranch of good intentions, so that it could be a model, and that took a lot of his time. one of the elements that he sought to perfect in order to help people was to create a much more productive ranch, a much more productive farm, so that people could be said, people fed, people could have jobs, people

generally we have this large picture on display, which is a picture of the day thomas edison and henry ford came to visit lisa burbank. ford wanted to come because they want to see these great things burbank had. they shared a similar strategies in doing their work. mr. ford was inventive and creative. they walked among the gardens together. mr. burbank showed him his own methods of mass production. henry ford was around his mass -- renowned for his mass production line. burbank's version was to bring thousands of plants so he could find the few that had mutations and the use those mutations to develop new plans for his work. he was -- it was the meeting of three geniuses. mr. burbank and mr. edison shared similar methods. they were more of trial and error. the men were contemporary and similar in age. although mr. edison was able to have a company, he and burbank were both inventors and their own way. ford and edison were impressed with mr. burbank and credited this visit with helping to inspire them to create the horticultural preserve that they created in florida. they created their

generally we have this large picture on display, which is a picture of the day thomas edison and henryord came to visit lisa burbank. ford wanted to come because they want to see these great things burbank had. they shared a similar strategies in doing their work. mr. ford was inventive and creative. they walked among the gardens together. mr. burbank showed him his own methods of mass production. henry ford was around his mass production line. burbank's version was to bring thousands of plants so he could find the few that had mutations and the use those mutations to develop new plans for his work. he was -- it was the meeting of three geniuses. mr. burbank and mr. edison shared similar methods. they were more of trial and error. the teat of men were contemporary and similar in age. although mr. edison was able to have a company, he and burbank were both inventors and their own way. ford and edison were impressed with mr. burbank and credited this visit with helping to inspire them to create the horticultural preserve that they created in florida. they created their own experiment gar

everyone knows thomas edison invented the light old but you probably don't know that edison filed a thousandtents for ideas that went nowhere. he was also fired by the telegraph office. he lost money invested in the cement company in an iron business. then came the lightbulb. another invention that grew out of failure, not on par with the lightbulb but still very successful is this toy. >> introducing laser pen. laser pens and that only that only construction system that lets you create with light. light up your creations as you build. john: laser pegs were invented by john. you can call it success by failure. >> ferguson when i grew up there ferguson missouri,. john: you dropped out of your school when you were a sophomore. >> it was a rough school with a lot of fights. john: you might have gone on welfare. >> i might have. >> i might have been said that i started by reading a lot of self-help books and finding out who i was and i had a knack for inventing better reflected that act over and over again. i invented a lot of things that weren't subtle. john: you invented a headache relief and

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been around for a long time, and electrical infrastructure hasn't changed really very much since thomas edison wired up the jp morgan mansion in new york, but it is also old-school. it is based on an old model of thinking about electricity and how it should work, and that is optimized for those big centralized power plants that are way out in the pucker brush and it is centralized for fossil fuels. so developing our own communities, we are thinking about how a power grid might look like. they are thinking about a grid that includes these small, local, and powersingly-renewable sources, instead of a system that we had that was for most of its history virtually and literally a monopoly. but that doesn't mean that the utilities will go away. they are going to be more critical than ever. they're going to have to enable green power and they're going to have to get smarter and interface with what is now being called the internet of things, possibly with our electric cars, with their phones, with our appliances. they will have to get more sophisticated about pricing, and consumers will be rewarded mo

. >> it's like thomas edison. they invented it. >> all right. they're trying to get a marijuana question and couldn't. right? >> so they're standing there in colorado. >> right. >> the cnbc guys wanted to get a marijuana question. but candidates just did one of these. i think maybe one of them should have addressed it. kasich did saying look, drugs really devastation on our society. and he had some innovative programs in ohio. but there wasn't a lot of social stuff in there. >> no. what is interesting i think these republican candidates are learning, too. because cycle after cycle, left wing media tried to trap them with questions on abortion and marriage when they're there, like tonight to, talk about jobs and the economy. new poll numbers now, 64% of the american people believe the country is on the wrong track so they learned, for the most part to cement them. ted cruz had a good joke, too, that went over well. >> here is how krauthammer rates the debate. rubio won, chris christie, second, ted cruz, third. >> rubio responded with an a. carson

. >> it's like thomas edison. they invented it. >> all right.ing to get a marijuana question and couldn't. right? >> so they're standing there in colorado. >> right. >> the cnbc guys wanted to get a marijuana question. but candidates just did one of these. i think maybe one of them should have addressed it. kasich did saying look, drugs really devastation on our society. and he had some innovative programs in ohio. but there wasn't a lot of social stuff in there. >> no. what is interesting i think these republican candidates are learning, too. because cycle after cycle, left wing media tried to trap them with questions on abortion and marriage when they're there, like tonight to, talk about jobs and the economy. new poll numbers now, 64% of the american people believe the country is on the wrong track so they learned, for the most part to cement them. ted cruz had a good joke, too, that went over well. >> here is how krauthammer rates the debate. rubio won, chris christie, second, ted cruz, third. >> rubio responded with an a. carson, what he sa

in order to demonstrate the incredible power, thomas edison filmed the execution of an elephant.xecutioners quickly seized on this modern method of putting the condemned to death. >> one of the first electric appliances was the electric chair. but the electric chair has its own problems. jesse tafarrow was executed in florida. a lot of people do believe he was innocent. there were eight inch flames that erupted from the skull cap during the execution, so he basically burned to death. in 1997, pedro medina was executed. >> flame erupted all across the top of his head, from one ear to the other. >> the warden was quoted as saying, the flames, smoke, putrid order and death by inferno plagues me still. >> in 1977, lethal injection was invented in oklahoma as a more humane way to execute prisoners. >> historically, executions were very ugly, hangings, electrocution, and so one of the goals of the state, now, is that it looks calm and peaceful. >> to a great degree, the lethal injection regime has much more to do with the witnesses than it has to do with the condemned. the witnesses we

thomas edison. maybe this company won't be it, but more will come. >> ben evans.e track record? you understand. seventeen losers for every winter. >> ben evans went to florida to see this demo, and he -- charles: before i let you go , amazon exploding in the aftermarket, facebook, even microsoft. you have to be feeling really good. >> feeling really good. charles: you are making a lot of people a lot of money. next, we have been asking me for a ton of questions. i think i can handle it even more. tweet me more. we are watching hillary clinton's ongoing testimony right now, still on capitol hill looking a lot more serious than she was today. this is not over by a long shot. get fast-acting, long-lasting relief from heartburn with it neutralizes stomach acid and is the only product that forms a protective barrier that helps keep stomach acid in the stomach where it belongs. for fast-acting, long-lasting relief. try gaviscon®. ardo you have there? coverage you need? for fast-acting, long-lasting relief. open enrollment ends december 7th. don't put it off 'til later.

. >> it's like thomas edison. they invented it. >> all right.hey're trying to get a marijuana question and couldn't. right? >> so they're standing there in colorado. >> right. >> the cnbc guys wanted to get a marijuana question. but candidates just did one of these. i think maybe one of them should have addressed it. kasich did saying look, drugs really devastation on our society. and he had some innovative programs in ohio. but there wasn't a lot of social stuff in there. >> no. what is interesting i think these republican candidates are learning, too. because cycle after cycle, left wing media tried to trap them with questions on abortion and marriage when they're there, like tonight to, talk about jobs and the economy. new poll numbers now, 64% of the american people believe the country is on the wrong track so they learned, for the most part to cement them. ted cruz had a good joke, too, that went over well. >> here is how krauthammer rates the debate. rubio won, chris christie, second, ted cruz, third. >> rubio responded with an a. carson,

the average tenure for a ceo at ge -- and thomas edison was the founder of the company -- was 15 years. it's not unheard of. that's a very average tenure for a ge ceo. if you had to think about what is going on, the pace of change, my expectation is immelt will be guiding the firm through this period of transition and then might be interesting to talk about when that tenure might end post this transformation. is that a couple of years? three years? we don't know. it would be premature to talk about it today. >> thank you so much. diversified companies analyst at rbc. >> right. let's check in just on that european car sales data we got earlier today. it rose 9.8% in september. that's 25th consecutive month of gains. now german auto makers were leading the gains with strong demand from the likes of diamler bmw and volkswagen as well. it's here for you now. do bear in mind the storong performance is september sales. the story really only broke on the 21st, 22nd of september so the full impact of diesel gate not coming through the numbers. they were a bit stronger earlier in trade and they

everyone knows that thomas edison invented the light bulb but you probably don't know that edison filedusand patents of ideas that went nowhere. he was also fired by " the telegraph office and lost money in other investments. then came the light bulb, another invention, not quite on par with the light bulb but still very successful, is this toy. >> introducing laser pads, you can light up your creations as you build. >> laser pegs were invented by john coppriola. so you have been called a success by failure, why? >> i think it's because ferguson, ferguson when i grew up there -- >> ferguson, missouri. >> yes. >> you dropped out of school when you were a sophomore? >> mentally in eighth grade, sophomore, i quit, it was a rough school. >> you might have gone on welfare. >> yes, i might have, but instead read a lot of self-help books and found out who i was. and i had a knack for inventing, i inventing many things that were not successful. >> invented a relief band, that was not successful. >> too many applications across too many platforms so therefore that failed as well. >> a battery-op

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. >> and today in history, in 1879, thomas edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in new jersey. but it wasn't until 1910 that cheaper than gas. >>> they were caught on camera rolling the loot into their vans. security video shows three men breaking into a winery in oregon last friday. they can be seen cutting down the fence and then rolling wine barrels into the vans. the owner says it is the fifth time his winery has been targeted in just the last six months. >>> some long island high school students are busy researching how to reduce nitrogen in our waterways. some of our top scientists in the nation are playing close attention. cbs 2's dave carlin tells us they have made a very important discovery. >> they stick to the roof. >> reporter: she and her brentwood high school classmates are on to something that could prevent massive fishkills and algae blooms that have been showing up in long island waterways. >> it's a cycle. so if we can protect mussels, they can protect the area. >> reporter: funded by a county grant the students found that mussels a shellfish ar

he loves his daughter, and people like steve and there are only a handful of them, henry ford, thomas edisonld, they are complicate and brilliant people, and that means strengths and weaknesses good and bad. it is an honest portrait and we moved thing, and yeah, we are not putting it here but there and he didn't say that but we need it for the narrative to tell the story, and it is still steve and john and otho thers and if you are hung up on the the accuracies, go make a documentary and watch that. we also are taking out the boring parts. >> ly tell you that it is not boring from all of the people here in the cnn newsroom, and i know it is not over, and think of your character and what we are covering with the political c campaign and are you watching all of this on tv right now, donald trump and wishing that this was still happening when the show was on, because, sir, you may have four more years of the "newsroom." >> i wonder what would happen if will mcevoy were covering what was going on right now, and all it proves to me is that nobody was really listening. we were going, you might wan

compare it to this 1894 thomas edison film. >> reporter: at the time, sargent's style was considered daring, unconventional-- especially his paintings of friends such as robert louis stevenson, the author of "treasure island"; and the french impressionist claude monet, inside and outside. >> he's seated on his artist's stool, holding a palette. >> reporter: the actual picture the museum of fine arts boston. >> it's a pure impressionist palette, and this was precisely what sargent was attempting to absorb and embrace at this time. >> reporter: he did so extravagantly, especially once he moved to britain to recover from the madame x fiasco. over time, the go-to portrait painter of his day but eventually lost interest in the grand paintings that made his name, preferring informal renderings of people he liked and watercolors, regarded as some of the finest ever painted. >> in 1907, he makes a formal declaration, "i'm not painting any more portraits." occasionally, he gets lured out of that for a very prominent commission, but he's got other interests in this period. and he's, you know,

it was from this desk that john adams would correspond with thomas edison and they would share over 300 letters in their lifetime adams would write to jefferson, you and i ought not before we have a chance to explain ourselves to one another. many of these letters were adams' lifeline to the outside world. sometimes he was surprised with a gift, including from his old friend john marshall, who he appointed chief justice. john marshall presented adams with a copy of his book that he written on the life of george washington. john adams is writing to john marshall that he has received this gift. he writes, dear sir, the extreme imbecility of old age must be my apology for neglecting to write, and thank you for your valuable book. it has not been for want for respect or admiration that i have not written frequently to you. there is no part of my life that i look back upon with more pleasure than the short time i spent with you. it is the pride of my life that i have given to this nation a chief justice equal to coke or hail, houck or mansfield. always your friend and well-wishers, though on

up there with thomas edison, the wright brothers, benjamin franklin, larger than life american inventorho helped shape the world as it is today. and now, well, i should say once again he is the subject of a new film. "steve jobs." it opens nationwide october 23rd. written by aaron sorkin, who won the oscar for "social network" about the founding of facebook. and directed by danny boyle who an an oscar for "slumdog millionaire." the movie looks at steve jobs in three different phases of his cree, each involving the launch a particular project. it shows him as a driven person obsessed with control. >> i don't feel rejected. >> you're sure? >> very sure. >> because it's not like the baby is born. the parents look and say nah, we're not interested in this one. on the other hand, someone did choose you. >> it's having no control. you find out you're out of the loop when the most crucial events of your life were set in motion. as long as you have control. i don't understand people who give it up. >> i recently sat down with director danny boyle and began by asking yes doesn't consider this fi

thomas edison failed -- thousand patents. that were turned down before the light bulb.ool. walt disney's first cartoon company went bankrupt. goes on and on. >> what is it about the efforts you put in, even though it doesn't end with a big check mark in your column, that benefits you in the long run. because you're forced to go through your mistakes. forced to really push for more when you're using your own money, have your own family on the line? >> that's a big part using your own money. because government fails and keeps doing the same thing. when you're using your own money you make an adjustment. you figure out what went wrong. and from failing you learn stuff. >> it's so interesting, too. you're a parent and you don't want your kids to fail. but somehow you should push for your kids to fail, shouldn't you? >> well, you can see it when a baby learns to walk, on their own. they want to get up and they fall. and they keep going. because when all strive for that. but the parents who smother their kids don't let them have that experience. >> john, we're going to watch

thomas edison was kicked out when he was 7 years old.hy i say if you have add, you're a hunter in a farmer's world. then the question of medication. paradoxically, stimulant medications causes people who need a sense of stimulation to relax. because now, hey, i'm still lated so i can pay attention. so, the question then is, if you're going to have a farmer-based classroom, do you medicate your kids or not and turn them into farmers? basically what stimulation made indication is they turn hunter kids into farmer kids. there's a whole scientific explanation i can lay on you but far more granular than we need to get. i personally believe, and i've seen this in a lot of kids and although we weren't using meds in the program for abused kids we started in the '70s, but i've seen in my family and others, my brothers' kids and friends, a personally think that failure in school is more destructive to a child than taking a stimulant medication. time may prove me wrong but i'm not an absolute opponent of stimulant medication for kids. i've tried th

address the disability the walls were adorned with photos of albert einstein, winston churchill and thomas edison. these remarkable men remind us of the promise of every child. that a learning disability like dyslexia need not hold a child back from an extraordinary life and extraordinary education. this is why we need the read bill, to help realize the ploms of every child with dyslexia. on this remarkable bipartisan night, i want to thank my texas friends, chairman smith, ranking member johnson, for working across the aisle together to make improvements to this bill in the committee process. i'm proud to be an original co-sponsor of this bill and urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support it. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: i'd like to thank mr. beyer for his generous comments, it's been nice to work with him on this particular bill. i would like to yield two gentleman from virginia -- the gentlewoman from irginia. ms. comstock: coming from a lynn of educators and being a library -- librarian, i understand how this af

henry ford change the the world and thomas edison, edison, oppenheimer, steve was one of those guys, and those guys that create -- the creative genius that goes behind those guys, they are not simple people, and i love that we had -- we have the opportunity to showcase one of the great creative visionaries that the world has ever had and that means the good and the bad. >> speaking of creative, you are also in "the martian," got that role and going on tour with your son's band. tell me about that. >> the ben daniels band we start friday and go out for november because that's what an actor should do, pick up a guy tar and go to clubs and opera houses and play with his son's band because that makes you young. >> exactly. just hold on. >> that's right. >> jeff daniels, thank you so much, always a pleasure and "steve jobs" from our sister company universal is playing in select theaters and, bands nationwide. >> coming up, a live performance from grammy winners pentatonix, but first this is "today" on nbc. leadership isn't given. it's earned. realized. accomplished. fulfilled. won. leader

long time, certainly are electrical infrastructure has not changed much in the way it works since thomas edison wired a mansion in new york. it is pretty much the same system. it is also old-school. it is based on an old model of thinking about other just the, and how it should work. that is optimized for those, centralized power plants way out in the pucker brush. in developing our own power, communities are thinking about what our new power grid a look like. they are thinking about a grid scale,cludes these small local, and frequently renewable sources, instead of a system that for much of its history was virtually, or literally, a monopoly. that does not mean the utilities will go away. they will be more critical than ever. the will have to enable distribution of green power, they will have to get smarter, and interface with what is being called the internet of things, possibly with our electrical cars, phones, appliances. it will have to get more sophisticated about pricing so that consumers are rewarded or .or using less power the utilities are going to have to become a partner in increasi

much like henry ford much like thomas edison others, steve jobs said i'm going to change the world andthen he did a bunch of times. you have got to be a certain mindset to do that and those guys are complicated. they are not simple they are complicated guys with issues. steve was no different and sculley was a guy that was brought in to steer her towards the next idea which was going great until it didn't. >> bill mentioned the newsroom. have you said which character you is based your anchor man character in the film on or people you might have spent time on or been influenced in that portrayal. >> i may be the only actor to publicly admit that i didn't do any research whatsoever. i did not want to shadow one particular anchor. i read the pilot, i saw that i'm taking cell phones and throwing them at cameras, i'm going why would a brian williams or a sean hannitiy or keith observer man why would they want me out there going, yeah i base it had on so and so we just made it up. >> and then you mind out how easy this job is to do right? >> no. i've even gone -- i remember takes on newsroom

. >> thomas edison turned down 1,000 times patents before he came up with the lightbulb. dr.rs. i would have quit after three stuart: you're saying you should not be risk averse. you should jump in and follow that dream and even if you fail, follow that dream, take that risk. is that what john stossel is saying? >> yes. and in america we have an attitude of entrepreneurship and if you fail, you go work for somebody else. stuart: are you saying in america. >> well, you're up. stuart: english should be the 51st state in the united states. >> exactly. stuart: are you we losing culture? safety at all costs? the government will help me. >> the political candidates are sure saying this is a terrible country, we have to help you and. stuart: you're right. >> taxpayers will do that. stuart: and i will watch southern california because it's tonight. >> oh, goody. stuart: 8:00. i'll boost your ratings. i will watch myself. if i was nielson family, i would help you but i'm not. >> you don't count because you're too old. stuart: that's true. you i'm out of the demographic. jo: happy frid