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11 Thomas Edison Predictions That Came True—Or Didn't
Nationalgeographic.com
2/15/2011
A hundred years ago this month, Thomas Edison—whose 164th birthday is celebrated with a Google doodle Friday—laid out a long series of predictions as to how technology would transform the world. Writing in Cosmopolitan—then a general-interest magazine—the U.S. inventor was spot on about some things, such as speedy airplanes, but "absolutely wrong" on others, said Paul Israel, director and general editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers Project at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
How Exactly Did They Think of That?
AmericanHeritage.com
1/8/2011
Sometime in the 20th century, public perception of the American inventor converged with the image of the mad scientist into a wild-eyed caricature of a raving lunatic, steam pouring from his ears, hair askew, slide rules or calculators falling out his pockets: Albert Einstein too brilliantly distracted to put on socks; Thomas Edison curled up exhausted on his desk in his lab coat and shoes; or the unforgettable “Doc” Brown muttering under his breath as he fiddled with the DeLorean’s flux capacitor in the Back to the Future film trilogy.
Baseball’s Bat Man
Smithsonian.com
10/5/2010
Chuck Schupp has delivered alchemy to major-league players for 27 years, listening to their wishes for the perfect bat and then getting his team at the Hillerich & Bradsby plant in Louisville, Kentucky to produce one that fits their fancy.
Tom Swift Turns 100
Smithsonian.com
7/1/2010
That’s just one more marvel from the fictitious boy inventor, who modestly but quickly took on ventures ambitious enough to entertain generations of readers. Along the way, he inspired more than a few actual innovators, such as Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak and Jack Cover, who developed the Taser.
The Little League World Series’ Only Perfect Game
Smithsonian.com
4/6/2010
They came to be known as “Los pequeños gigantes,” the little giants. In baseball, a game full of real and imagined fairy tales from Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World” to Bernard Malamud’s fable The Natural, no story may be more inspiring or surprising than the story of the 1957 Little League team from Monterrey, Mexico.
Play Ball!
AmericanHeritage.com
7/2/2009
The game of baseball was not always the well-ordered sport we know today, played on elegantly manicured fields bordered by crisp white lines. As historians have debunked the ‘widely held myth that Abner Doubleday of Cooperstown, New York, invented the sport out of whole cloth in 1839, they have discovered its deeper American origins.
For General Patton's Family, Recovered Ground
Smithsonian.com
5/20/2009
In 1986, the year I turned 21, my father accidentally set fire to our basement. Until then he could often be found down there, in the office he'd carved out for himself in a far corner, smoking a cigar and working on his diaries. He'd been keeping them—dozens of identical volumes bound in red canvas—for most of his adult life.