Edison, the Man (1940)
• May 10th, 1940 • 1h 47min
History, Drama
Overview
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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