Hello Everybody,
As many of you know, I am a middle school music/band teacher and I always run a
unit about Edison and the phonograph. We always end the unit by recording on a
wax cylinder.
For the first time in many years, I am teaching two 6th grade general music
classes along with my band cla
Just make sure that you don't teach them everything about Edison, he was
very hard on employees and paid a low working wage and fired most who
disagreed with him. He had a strange view-almost myopic view about art, the
people that produced it and music. If it didn't fit his view or like he
simply d
You might not want to mention the elephant execution either... 😉
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:01:46 -0700
> From: abefed...@gmail.com
> To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little Known Facts About Edison :)
>
> Just make sure that you don't teach them ever
Thanks for the tip, Abe! I will certainly leave all of that out. Especially the
anti-Semitism!Â
--- On Fri, 1/25/13, Abe Feder wrote:
From: Abe Feder
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little Known Facts About Edison :)
To: "Antique Phonograph List"
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013, 7:01 PM
Abe, I've read DOZENS of biographies of Edison, and none of them said he was
anti-Semitic. Some of them specifically said he was not anti-Semitic. Just
because he knew Ford doesn't mean he agreed with him. Also, I don't recall any
biographies saying Edison paid low wages or that employees didn
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>> To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
>> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little Known Facts About Edison :)
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>> Just make sure that you don't teach them everything about Edison, he was
>> very hard on employees and paid a low working wage and fired most who
>> di
I had never heard of it before either until Abe mentioned it tonight. Since I
am not an expert, I assumed there was supporting evidence. Glad to hear it may
not be completely accurate.
Melissa
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 9:47 PM EST Jim Nichol wrote:
>Abe, I've read D
-Original Message-
From: Abe Feder
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 6:01 PM
To: Antique Phonograph List
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little Known Facts About Edison :)
Just make sure that you don't teach them everything about Edison, he was
very hard on employees and paid a low working wag
Not to mention that it's really easy to trash someone who is 82 years
beyond defending himself.
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From: "George Glastris"
To: "Antique Phonograph List"
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little
Edison got along fine, for many years, with his friend and (Jewish)
business partner, Sigmund Bergmann, who built several of his first phonographs.
Allen
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In a message dated 1/26/2013 2:23:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
glast...@comcast.net writes:
And just like his good
If you google "edison antisemite" you will come across an astonishing
and lengthy screed about how the Jews created Hollywood so they could
peddle filth and undermine Christian morals. It begins with the
struggle of Jews to wrest filmmaking away from the Edison Trust, and
strays into communism
Both Paul Israel's and Neil Baldwin's biographies of Edison have a few
paragraphs on his attitudes towards the Jews. Baldwin's biography of
Ford has more or less the same information as in his Edison book, and is
quoted on his website:
http://www.neilbaldwinbooks.com/book-related-information/bol
her countries, even though
it cost them their lives to return. Just saying
> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:33:51 -0500
> From: chris...@cox.net
> To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little Known Facts About Edison :)
>
> If you google "edison antisemite"
NNDB cites no sources, nor its authors, and can hardly be considered
reliable.
Bill
On 1/26/2013 11:24 AM, Vinyl Visions wrote:
Google: "was Thomas Edison anti
semitic"http://www.nndb.com/people/333/22267/
"Like his friend Henry Ford, Edison was virulently anti-Semitic and blamed Jews for
slanted". In other words, distorted, and
or far from objective.
That being stated, for this reason I do not believe the NNDB when they say
Edison an anti-Semite.Â
Dennis
--- On Sat, 1/26/13, Vinyl Visions wrote:
From: Vinyl Visions
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little Known Fac
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Behalf Of Melissa Ricci
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:28 PM
To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little Known Facts About Edison :)
I agree. It's a good idea that I leave that out!
Melissa
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 8:28 PM EST Vinyl Visions
with a grain
of salt - unless that person is in a position to influence others on a large
scale.
> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:35:01 -0800
> From: back...@yahoo.com
> To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little Known Facts About Edison :)
>
> >>>&g
> And just like his good friend Henry Ford he was very anti-Semitic.
>
> Abe,
>
> I have studied Edison for some thirty years. Could you please give me some
> concrete evidence that Edison was anti-Semitic?
>
[...]
> Dennis?
There is no doubt that Edison was anti-Semite. Here is evidence
Try and keep in mind that being or expressing an anti-Semitic point of
view was all the rage at the time these men lived. It means nothing
today other than provide an opportunity for those people today who are
not big fans of the captains of industry and invention of the late 19th
and early 20t
This is my pet peeve! Edison DID invent the light bulb. To say he only
perfected it is ridiculous. By definition, a light bulb consists of a glass
bulb with a filament inside. Only Edison had that. This would be like saying
that whoever invented "stairs" also invented the escalator, because th
gt; Germany. That's why a boat full of Jewish emigrants escaping from Nazi
> Germany and the holocaust of WWII were turned away by the US and other
> countries, even though it cost them their lives to return. Just saying
>
> > Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:33:51 -0500
> > Fr
last long
enough, and could be produced at a cost reasonable enough to be commercially
successful.
-- Greg Farmer
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From: "Jim Nichol"
To: "Antique Phonograph List"
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little
> -- Greg Farmer
>
>
> - Original Message - From: "Jim Nichol"
> To: "Antique Phonograph List"
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 3:25 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little Known Facts About Edison :)
>
>
> This is my pet peeve! Edison D
hi all
that was an interesting show
charley hummel was the expert who bought the doll
a wonderful great collector
zono
In a message dated 1/25/2013 6:10:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
riccib...@yahoo.com writes:
Hello Everybody,
As many of you know, I am a middle school music/band teacher a
a very good book on edison was a streak of luck
but he was no different from any other capitalist of his era
In a message dated 1/25/2013 8:18:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
abefed...@gmail.com writes:
Just make sure that you don't teach them everything about Edison, he was
very hard on em
5/13, Abe Feder wrote:
From: Abe Feder
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Little Known Facts About Edison :)
To: "Antique Phonograph List"
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013, 7:01 PM
Just make sure that you don't teach them everything about Edison, he was
very hard on employees and paid a low work
Edison cared deeply for his customers, that is why the C H and K reproducers
along with the 2 and 4 minute recorders were still being made and sold in the
mid 1920's. By 1924 the recorder used the same box as the business recorder.
On November 10, 1925 Clarence Ferguson purchased a 2 minute r
Terrific email--- totally agree
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 26, 2013, at 9:35 PM, Steven Medved wrote:
>
> Edison cared deeply for his customers, that is why the C H and K reproducers
> along with the 2 and 4 minute recorders were still being made and sold in the
> mid 1920's. By 1924 the re
Thanks Steve!
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