everybody knew the name of thomas edison. y knew what edison had done for the united states so it was quite an event edison teamed up henry ford tried to create this enormous project, that's the subject of my book. it happened like this. edison and ford knew each other and ford was a younger man, one of the first jobs ford got when he was a young man was not in automobiles but in electricity. he worked on electrical dynamos as a young man. one of the first jobs henry ford got was working at thomas edison's electric company in detroit, michigan. he was a farm boy and he hated farm work. he did the grocery of farm work and he hated working outside in all brothers, the kind of stuff farmers have to do to make a living. and the thing henry ford didn't like. henry ford was a natural aptitude for machinery and he loved angry with machines, early machines. he grew up in the 1880s and 90s and during that. , esteem engines were all the things. steam engines were huge, they were used to power factories and on the farm, they had steam en

steven johnson looks at the advancements that increased the lifespan and then henry ford and thomas edison's failed attempt to build an industrialized city and the tennessee river valley in the 1920s. and breitbart editor-in-chief argues the mainstream media has destroyed its own credibility. find more scheduled information at booktv.org or consult your program guide. now, here is a net gordon reed on the announcement of the end of slavery in texas. the juneteenth national independence day act signed and passed this week has established today as a federal holiday. welcome to the free library of philadelphia i am the director of author events. we are excited to have annette gordon reed with us tonight to discuss her new book on juneteenth. she joined us in 2008 a couple of weeks after the publication of the headings is monticello an american family which went on to win the pulitzer prize and the national book award and she was here for her biography of andrew johnson and later she shared the

johnson looks at this have increased the human lifespan, historian thomas looks at it and reported thomas edison in industrialized city in tennessee river valley in the 1920s rated and editor-in-chief alex marlowe, argues that the mainstream media has destroyed its own credibility read it all starts tonight at 6:55 p.m. eastern rated by more schedule information at booktv.org broken social program guide. neuroscientist best-selling author lisa janelle that was a guest on her weekly author interview program afterwards. she discussed the science of memory and forgetting. >> reasons in writing the intention behind this was that have been talking about alzheimer's around the world for over a decade now. that is super important work personally and i noticed you as well read i really try to help folks understand the disease and encourage earlier diagnosis and repair and research. it turns out though that every time i spoke about alzheimer's, the conversation it eventually shifted into memory and forgetting in general. an affair that folks over the age of 40, definitely and in the 50s are already kind

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