Europe 1 Studio SEASON 2021 - 202207:00 a.m., August 17, 2022
Listen to the story dedicated to Thomas Edison, famous American scientist and industrialist of the 20th century.
Pioneer of electricity but also of cinema, Edison filed more than 1000 patents during his lifetime.
The devices he developed have had a huge influence on the daily lives of people around the world.
His most famous invention, the light bulb, has even become the symbol of all bright ideas.
What was the life of Thomas Edison for him to become such a genius of the modern era?
In this first part of the episode produced by Europe 1 Studio, Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach tells how the scientist built his empire, brick by brick.
In this new episode of the "At the heart of history" podcast, history specialist Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach tells the story of the life of one of the greatest American inventors: Thomas Edison.
At the dawn of the 1930s, the glory of Thomas Edison gave no indication of the inventor's difficult beginnings.
Small, Edison is a very turbulent child.
He runs away, he is bored at school, and he conducts chemical experiments in the basement of the house which sometimes end in disaster.
So, at the age of 13, Thomas Edison left home and got hired as a newspaper seller in a railway company.
In no time, the out-of-control child becomes a hard-working boy.
But hunt the natural, it comes back at a gallop... This story is a Europe 1 Studio production.
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"At the heart of history" is a Europe 1 Studio podcast
Writing and presentation: Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach
Production: Europe 1 Studio
Directed by: Clement Ibrahim
Broadcaster: Eloise Bertil