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@dodgealum Thank you! Creates intellectual inquiry, much like Talmud study. Great. I took 4 AP courses, 2 in history in early 1970s.

@curtdr I also read the Marx-Engles Reader and only excerpt of Das Kapital. On target.

@elliottbnewcombjr Phew on you. Uncle Tom was a hero. He wouldn’t rat out the women and saved their lives.  There is a new opera, OMAR, which was written by Black Americans.   In 1807, a 37-year-old scholar living in West Africa was captured and forced aboard a ship bound for Charleston, South Carolina. Omar Ibn Said's life and Muslim faith are remembered and retold in this inspirational West Coast premiere inspired by his remarkable 1831 autobiography (the only known surviving American slavery narrative written in Arabic).  Shows the African slave trade by Africans, both evil and benevolent slave owners, the latter teaching slaves to read and be elevated in pre Civil War America.   

About 600,000 slaves were transported to the United States, or 5% of the twelve million slaves taken from Africa. About 310,000 of these persons were imported into the Thirteen Colonies before 1776: 40% directly and the rest from the Caribbean.

You should go live in a nice socialist or communist country. You blame billionaires on right wing elites. Ha Ha! It’s the Democrat/socialist billionaires that are the elitists putting down everyone else (Gates, Bezos, Soros, et.al.) not Musk or Warren. Billionaires create jobs and innovation, not poor people. Technology comes from the top. Edison was not a nice man but promoted new technology which benefited everyone (stole many ideas). Ford revolutionized manufacturing while providing superior working conditions for employees. Your one sided look at America is just like Zinn. Leftist!

I am left handed

@fleschler 

you were able to contradict yourself in one paragraph. Not that any of it made ANY sense

No major commentary here. Just want to note that have visited Edison vacation home in Sarasota, FL. Interesting about Ford because I recall they were good friends and would vacation together. Edison was a serious researcher and did have a large lab next to the vacation home. He was trying to develop rubber substitutes (plant-based, I think) for the war. He did not succeed, think vulcanization was the major advance. He and his team are responsible for many of the devices we have today: electric fans, electric irons, etc. 

Read a university account of his relationship with Tesla. Started overseas and then Tesla moved here, I think working in NY for Edison. Edison was impressed by him. He did get some ideas from Edison which caused conflict when he left. If I recall, he was working at Edison on alternating current generators. Edison was fixated on direct current, so Tesla left. Westinghouse picked up, financing the Tesla ideas. Direct current lost, too difficult with large batteries. Alternating current occurs with by rotating wire thru a magnetic field or vice-versa, generated by hydropower or steam turbines. The phonograph was invented by Edison. Current turntables also have the iron or magnet moving, generating the current, similar to electric generator. He did not invent movie projection but got into it. Was out rather quickly as people soon got bored with just being startled by the illusion of approaching locomotives and wanted stories. He also, if I recall, sold off the light bulb business when he saw alternating current had won. Got into mining and developed major machines there.

While it took around 1000 tries to get to the tungsten filament, he actual was repeatedly success with other materials. He just kept improving it.