Thomas Edison discountable-photo informal and unannounced meetings

informal and unannounced meetings

Staff photographer James Estrin was on assignment taking photographs of passengers for an article on higher demand of the city's taxi cabs

This illustration by Nicole Natri was used as a full-page cover for The New York Times Book Review with the theme

It is seen here pulling out of Chatham Square station in Chinatown

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Thomas Edison discountable-photo informal and unannounced meetingsThomas Edison, deep in thought, left, in his laboratory in West Orange, N. J. Called "The American Genie of the (Electric) Lamp" by The Times, it was reported that when he worked he allowed himself no more than his usual half hour midday meal. A Times reporter ventured to interrogate him about his "undermined physical vitality" in 1921. He instantly assumed a position of a soldier and challenged: "Do I look it?" It was then that all appeared satisfied