Introducing Business History: The Edison Invention People Don't Talk About
What's Your Problem? host Jacob Goldstein has a new show: Business History.
How did Hitler’s favorite car become synonymous with hippies? What got Thomas Edison tangled up with the electric chair? Did someone murder the guy who invented the movies? On Business History, Jacob and fellow former Planet Money host Robert Smith examine the surprising stories of businesses big and small and find out what you can learn from those who founded them.
In this episode: The inventor that transformed America and the world. Thomas Alva Edison registered over one thousand patents before he died in…
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