Edison, the Man

Edison, the Man (1940)

May 10th, 19401h 47min

History, Drama
68%

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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