This site uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide services and advertising.
By continuing to browse, you agree to the use of cookies described in our Cookies Policy.
You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site.
To learn more see our Cookies Policy.
IT’S HARDLY SURPRISING that same man who brought us recorded sound and electric light had a very packed schedule.
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings has dug up Thomas Edison’s five-page list of “things doing and to be done” dated January 3, 1888.
This was just a couple years after Edison moved to his new laboratory in West Orange, NJ — the place where he mass produced phonographs and built the first motion picture studio.
Advertisement
The notebook of ideas and tasks comes from The Thomas A. Edison Paper Project at Rutgers University, which has digitized nearly 175,000 documents from the inventor’s life.
What types of things were on the agenda?
Oh, just a cotton picker, deaf apparatus, electrical piano and a hand turning phonograph, to name a few.
You can see more of Edison’s notes and drawings here.
Thomas Edison’s 1888 To-Do list will make you feel inadequate
Tuesday 26 November, 2024
Tuesday 26 November, 2024
Download our app
Thomas Edison’s 1888 To-Do list will make you feel inadequate
IT’S HARDLY SURPRISING that same man who brought us recorded sound and electric light had a very packed schedule.
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings has dug up Thomas Edison’s five-page list of “things doing and to be done” dated January 3, 1888.
This was just a couple years after Edison moved to his new laboratory in West Orange, NJ — the place where he mass produced phonographs and built the first motion picture studio.
The notebook of ideas and tasks comes from The Thomas A. Edison Paper Project at Rutgers University, which has digitized nearly 175,000 documents from the inventor’s life.
What types of things were on the agenda?
Oh, just a cotton picker, deaf apparatus, electrical piano and a hand turning phonograph, to name a few.
You can see more of Edison’s notes and drawings here.
Thomas Edison's To-Do List (1)
Thomas Edison's To-Do List (2)
Thomas Edison's To-Do List (3)
Thomas Edison's To-Do List (4)
Thomas Edison's To-Do List (5)
Images source from The Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
Rutgers SPark of Genius Thomas Edison To Do Wow