Who We Are - Volume 2 - Chapter 11: Edison and the Promise of Universal Progress - Part 2

By Anton Chaitkin; Copyright Anton Chaitkin

Part 1 of Chapter 11 was published on Monday, June 17, 2024

Part 2

“An Invention That Will Revolutionize the Motive Power of the World”

In July 1878, Professor Barker invited Edison to travel with him by the new Union Pacific railroad to Wyoming, to join a group of scientists in viewing a solar eclipse.[1] On this trip of two months, Barker reviewed with E…