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Thought you may enjoy this below comment in an 1878 article about how the new technologies are destroying life as we know it!
NYT in 1878: "Something ought to be done to Mr. Edison, and there is a growing conviction that it had better be done with a hemp rope."
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1878 article on "something needs to be done with this Edison
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Re: 1878 article on "something needs to be done with this Ed
I wondered who started us down the slippery slope to perdition... 
And they even had the foresight to mention hemp...
And they even had the foresight to mention hemp...
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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Re: 1878 article on "something needs to be done with this Ed
Must be Ford...and " driving" to perdition is right!! See what he had to face!
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Re: 1878 article on "something needs to be done with this Ed
An Edison/Ford conspiracy... 
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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Re: 1878 article on "something needs to be done with this Ed
Visionaries attacked by Latter Day Luddites! Some folks don't like change. I believe Uncle Josh said, "I don't hold with furniture what talks".