…Popularizer of astronomy and well known writer named Garrett Servus, and his novel was called Edison's Conquest of mars. The Edison is Thomas a Edison you know the electric light and phonographs movies, mars. This book praises yankee ingenuity as exemplified…

…and well known writer named Garrett Servus, and his novel was called Edison's Conquest of mars. The Edison is Thomas a Edison you know the electric light and phonographs movies, mars. This book praises yankee ingenuity as exemplified by Thomas Edison and…

…Thomas a Edison you know the electric light and phonographs movies, mars. This book praises yankee ingenuity as exemplified by Thomas Edison and picks up where wells left off. Thomas Edison discovers that Great Britain has been conquered by martians, puts…

…movies, mars. This book praises yankee ingenuity as exemplified by Thomas Edison and picks up where wells left off. Thomas Edison discovers that Great Britain has been conquered by martians, puts aside for a brief period his other technological efforts…

…us but not so well for the martians. This was, by the way, written on the eve of the Spanish American war. Now Thomas Edison was of course by this time already a legendary figure. This is why servus inducted him, perhaps unwillingly, to play the title…

…world war I rolled around there was in many popular circles, in part because of the service book, the expectation that Thomas Edison, having quickly dispatched the martians, could easily handle the kaiser. And a general sigh of relief was heard when a…

…the kaiser. And a general sigh of relief was heard when a letter was published from the secretary of the navy, written to Edison and asking him to supervise military research and development in the first world war. And let me quote from that letter. By…

…military research and development in the first world war. And let me quote from that letter. By the way this aspect of Edison is from a first rate new book by Bruce Franklin called war stars, the super weapon and the American Imagination, just being…

…by Oxford University press. Here's an excerpt from the letter by the secretary of the navy Josephus Daniels in 1915 to Thomas Edison. We are confronted with a new and terrible engine of warfare in the submarine. With your own wonderful brain to aid…

…United States will be able to meet this new danger with new devices that will assure peace to our country. Well, Edison enlisted. There seems to have been absolutely no significant weapons that emerged from Edison's Organization, but nevertheless it had the…

…but still that's something sort of cute. I think these inventions would have been developed had wells and service and Edison never lived, but maybe not so quickly. The timing, nature and governmental acceptance of this partnership would have been different.…