Big Edi

[bigmack]

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TommyE turns something today & brought us out of the dark and vinyl records for our listening pleaSURE.

Wanting to be like TE as a kid I took apart a record player. I used the motor to make an automatic door opener between our kitchen & dining room.
(Ma flipped when she saw I nailed a motor to the wall attached with fishing line to the door)

I then took the same motor and made a candy machine. Couldn't figure out how make people pay so it was based on the honor system.

Flip the switch and get a bar. Flip the switch without turning it off fast and you'd break the fishing line that opened the door.

2 this day, I'm still thanked by my sibs for the free candy bars.

Big Edi had it all figured out long before me and my dopey candy machine. :(

[Tom]

So I always wondered, when TE made his very first phone call......who di he call?

[Let's Roll]

Edison was good at many things. Had great ideas and marketing skills and was able to manipulate politicians and the public. In my opinion he was not the best electrical engineer of his time, that man was Nikola Tesla.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

[Steve 'StatMan']

So I always wondered, when TE made his very first phone call......who di he call?

Probably to Alexander Graham Bell. "Hey Alex - is your's ready yet?"

[cj's dad]

So I always wondered, when TE made his very first phone call......who di he call?

To Mostie wanting to know where his mail is.

[Tom]

Probably to Alexander Graham Bell. "Hey Alex - is your's ready yet?"

Oh crap, you're right.....BELL!

I went to school with Jeff Seigel! :lol:

[bigmack]

So I always wondered, when TE made his very first phone call......who di he call?
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