. >> in 1882 on pearl street in new york city thomas edison opened the world's first commercial electric power plant for 167,000 miles through high voltage transmission mile and millions of miles to bring power to over 150 million customers. >> there are only four distinct electrical grids that service essentially all of north america. you have the two big ones, western and eastern, and the two electrical separatist-- separatestist, quebec and texas. >> the electrical grid is the most massive machine humans ever built. >> in the united states we use something like five or six times more energy per person thafn anywhere else in the world. >> trevor: of course americans consume that much energy. americans invented a bike that you have to plug in, doesn't go anywhere and costs more than ten regular bicycles but yes, the electrical grid is the most massive machine that man has ever built. and it is amazing how it connects the entire continent. just think, while you are blending a smoothie in your kitchen, donald trump is using the same electricity to shred his tax returns. actually beautiful

thomas edison was a great inventor. he did great work, but he could not get that light bulb to work. he never got it to work until he collaborated with lewis latimer, who was a son of former slaves. his parents had escaped from slavery and were living up in boston. thomas edison took his imperfect light bulb that he couldn't get to work, went up, visited with lewis latimer who invented a filament, a carbon filament, and the two of them have lit the world. that's part of black history that a lot of people don't know. that's just one of the many examples of what we could do with this great country of ours, if we can get beyond our comfort zones and be able to recognize the work of each and every human being, irrespective of gender, skin color and national origin. >> i can always count on you for a remarkable story about history, congressman. thank you for joining me. jim clyburn is the democratic congressman from south carolina, majority whip, chairman of the sub committee on the coronavirus crisis. as he always reminds u

james prescott jewel and most famously thomas edison revolutionized our lives by making light bulbs readily available. but the effect of all this artificial life can have a damaging effect on both the environment and our health. i have never ever seen anything like this obviously where the great reluctance the magnitude 6.6 earthquake. in 1904 los angeles was hit by a strong earthquake it cost chaos on the streets and the black ops busy as you look out your window is probably fishguard frightening the blackout many people called observatories and even 911 not because the earth was shaking but because they saw a giant silvery cloud in the sky that cloud was in fact the milky way countless stars they had never seen before you maybe haven't heard much about it yet but light pollution doesn't really consume stars it seriously affects our health and the environment. when the 1st light bulb was turned on and the 900 century it marked a real revolution night suddenly became day. it's great with electric light we can travel work. go out on a party what ever the time of. the pioneers might not have

james prescott jewel and most famously thomas edison revolutionized our lives by making light bulbs readily available. facts of artificial life can have a damaging effect on both the environment and our health. and i have never ever seen anything like this obviously where the great reluctance is a magnitude 6.6 earthquake. in 1904 los angeles was hit by a strong earthquake that caused chaos on the streets and the black ops you see as you look out your window it's probably fish dark red herring the blackout many people called observatories and even 911 not because. of because they saw john. silvery cloud in the sky that cloud was in fact the milky way countless stars they had never seen before you maybe haven't heard much about it yet but light pollution doesn't really consume stars it seriously affects our health and the environment. when the 1st light bulb was turned on and the 900 century it marked a real revolution night suddenly became day. it's great with electric light we can travel. work go out on party whatever the time of day the pioneers might not have expected then ventured to ta

was it thomas jefferson and thomas edison? john adams and george w. bush? roosevelt george w. bush or rutherford b hayes and burt reynolds? >> i like the last impaired but i'll think it's number two. sue for all my gosh kevin that is absolute correct. we have a tie game it is a barnburner here on "prez your luck". herbie goat next round. inez this one's for you. which president dedicated the statue of liberty on october 28, 1886. wasn't my boyfriend ... as a grant? george w. bush? grover cleveland? or abraham lincoln? that would have been effete. [laughter] to back it was cleveland. see for you are absolutely right, inez. you are on the board. it is a three way tie for now. well done. this one is for dave. true or false, gerald ford became both vice president and president without ever being elected to either office. >> i know he was not elected to present was a vice president i will say true. kennedy: you would be correct, fate is on your side dave smith you are the lead by one. kevin here we go your chance to tie yet again. it's a nailbiter. which preside

i know thepublic hearing to the renewablepetition for thomas edison charter academy . superintendent matthews , we introduce michael davis to report on the renewable solution and we've already heard from staff and from tech around this. maybe you can bebrief . >> thank you president lopez. we will present and this is a public hearing and we have heard from them that was in the initial public hearing so we needto hear from them again . i will start with a short presentation and then it will be their turn. thank you. next slide please. so thomas edison charter academy, located at 3125 second street renewable for five years beginning july 1, 2021 and june 30, 2026, there are 650 as measured by average daily students in kindergarten through eighth. teca has operated in san francisco since 2001 and under the authorization of this board of education since 2010 and this board last renewed teca for the period july 21 through june 30, 2020. next slide please. so the review timeline as outlined in current law is teca submitted their petition to district on november 13 2020. the

wonderkinned he's the fastest telegraph operator thomas edison by the way also was a streamly fast telegraph operator and then carnegie it's promoted over and over again by scott to be a kind of manager of the pen, pennsylvania and those guys follow lincoln into washington and become really important in managing. the north's railroad supremacy, which is very much a factor in the north's ultimate winning of the civil war. yeah this question comes from pete rad, and he asks did lincoln discuss or even mention slavery in any of the speeches he gave along the way and if so, what did he say? and if not, why didn't he? great question. i mean he is. writing the first inaugural en route he has completed his first draft and set it in type in springfield, but he's he's still adjusting it. and orville browning. his illinois friend is is with him on the first day of the trip and offers an important single word change which herald describes in lincoln president-elect, and i also mentioned it's a kind of a change of a verb to be more conciliatory toward toward the south and when he's addressing southern a

one of thomas edison's first moving pictures is a trip over the brooklyn bridge on either the cable car the "l" train. i don't know what he was on. but i think you can youtube it. and you start over in brooklyn. you come over the bridge. and you wind up in this terminal. so you can go back in the past to a certain extent. just as much as we need to go back in the past, quite frankly. and so the city of brooklyn is -- of course this is 1910. and it's already been annexed new york. a million people by the mid 1890s. 2 million people by the early 1920s. that's a lot of growth. you can't do this with horse cars. you have the bridge, but how do you get there? if you have neighborhood that is are growing and being developed far away from the bridge, you can't bring all these people up to the bridge in horse cars. it just doesn't do Ñ'z>b.cy it. so brooklyn built in the 1880s and early '90s, an "l" train system that would feed the brooklyn bridge. 4 out of the 5 lines end up at, the brooklyn bridge. the fifth line is the line that feeds the eastern addition, that fw a lot of out of towners don

by the, way a one of thomas edison's famous pictures is a trip either on the cable car or the l train. i don't know what he was on. but you start over in brooklyn, you come over the bridge and you wind up in -- . so you can go back in the past to a certain extent just as much as we need to go back into the past, quite frankly. so the city of brooklyn, this is 1910 and it's already been next new york. the city of brooklyn is growing by leaps and bounds, millions of people by the 1990s, 2 million people by the early 19 twenties. you can't do this with horse cars. you have the bridge, but how do you get there? if you have neighborhoods that are growing undeveloped far away from the bridge you cannot bring all of these people from the bridge in horse cars. it just doesn't do it. so brooklyn built in the 18 eighties and the early 1890s eight l train system that would feed the brooklyn bridge four out of the five l train bridges. the fifth line is the line that feeds the eastern addition that is broadway, a lot of out of town are still realize there are three bottles in new york. broadway m