Edison: Genius. Showman. Executioner.

Episodes

1. 01 Episode 1: The Machine That Stole a Human Voice Free1:45 In 1877, a strip of tin foil speaks back—and transforms an obscure laboratory director into the Wizard of Menlo Park.
2. 02 Episode 2: The Railroad Boy Who Heard the Future Locked1:21 A child with almost no formal schooling finds his education beside the tracks and his first profession inside the telegraph network.
3. 04 Episode 4: The Laboratory That Invented Inventing Locked1:39 At Menlo Park, Edison turns invention from a solitary pursuit into an organized system of experiments, specialists, and production.
4. 05 Episode 5: The Voice That Reached the White House Locked1:35 The phonograph escapes Menlo Park, earns a patent, and carries Edison from laboratory curiosity to presidential sensation.
5. 06 Episode 6: The Thread That Refused to Die Locked1:30 To challenge gas and candles, Edison’s team tests unlikely materials until one carbonized thread survives through the night.
6. 07 Episode 7: The Night Menlo Park Began to Glow Locked1:34 Edison moves beyond a single bulb and stages a public demonstration of a complete incandescent-lighting system.
7. 08 Episode 8: The Power Station Beneath Manhattan Locked1:59 Edison attempts his greatest systems test by delivering commercial electricity from Pearl Street to real customers.
8. 09 Episode 9: The Empire That Erased His Name Locked1:35 As the electric company moves beyond him, Edison builds a much larger laboratory where invention can proceed on an industrial scale.
9. 10 Episode 10: The Ten Thousand Behind the Wizard Locked1:32 West Orange reveals that Edison’s real instrument is a vast organization of engineers, chemists, machinists, and factory workers.
10. 11 Episode 11: The Machine That Became an Industry Locked1:35 Edison’s organization surrounds the phonograph with records, equipment, and factories until recorded sound becomes a business.
11. 12 Episode 12: The Black Room That Made Pictures Move Locked1:15 Inside the strange Black Maria studio, Edison’s organization builds a complete system for filming and exhibiting motion pictures.
12. 13 Episode 13: The Mountain That Ate Millions Locked1:11 Edison risks a fortune on failed iron-ore processing before another ten-year experiment finally yields a profitable battery.
13. 14 Episode 14: The Corporation Built Around One Man Locked1:54 Edison consolidates his remaining businesses around his name, his laboratories, and the battery that finally rewarded a decade of work.
14. 15 Episode 15: The Enemy Edison Could Not See Locked1:15 During World War I, the aging inventor takes his experimental method onto the water in search of submarines.
15. 16 Episode 16: The Night America Recreated His Miracle Locked1:45 Congress, Henry Ford, and the public transform the elderly Edison into the national embodiment of invention.
16. 17 Episode 17: The Five Million Pages He Left Behind Locked1:41 After Edison’s death, an immense archive exposes the machinery, correspondence, and collaborators behind the public legend.
17. 18 Episode 18: Who Really Invented the Edison Age? Locked1:38 The archive delivers a more powerful verdict than the lone-genius myth: Edison’s defining invention was a system for inventing at scale.

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