Friends Speaker Series: Imagine a World Without Edison: What if Thomas Edison had never lived?

Thomas Edison cheated death at least three times in his youth. But what if fate had taken a different turn? What if Edison had never lived to gift us recorded sound, electric light, and the magic of the Hollywood film industry? With a legacy of 1,093 patents, his genius birthed not just inventions but our entire way of life, Step into the unknown with us to ponder: in an alternate universe, how different would the world be? Who would have stepped into the void, shaping a reality we can only imagine?About the Speaker: Bob Rosenberg was an educator and director of the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University for nearly two decades.…Learn More