#nancy thomas alva edison

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And then she went and burned down the office

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title and self proclaimed title

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i need to STOP making tesla basically friendless in my au's..... in my defense it's extremely funny (and basically canon) that tesla's only friend is a Child

in Moonlit Waters her and Edison have a sibling rivalry kind of relationship so i guess that counts?

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LỜI NÓI DỐI VĨ ĐẠI!LÃO GIÀ NGÃ BẢY SÀI GÒN.

 Nhà bác học Thomas Edison, sinh ngày 11/2/1847, tại Milan, Ohio (Mỹ), vốn bị coi là đứa trẻ "đần độn, rối trí" (tâm thần). Vào khoảng năm 7 tuổi, một hôm cậu từ trường về nhà và nói với mẹ: "Mẹ, thầy giáo bảo con đưa cho mẹ cái này!".

Cẩn thận mở ra xem, bên trong kèm lá thư của giáo viên chủ nhiệm gửi phụ huynh em Edison, nước mắt bà Nancy Elliott giàn giụa. Cậu bé đứng ngẩn người kinh ngạc, cậu hỏi mẹ rằng thầy giáo đã viết gì trong đó?.

Ngập ngừng một lát, bà Nancy đọc to lá thư cho con trai mình: "Con trai của ông bà là một thiên tài! Nhưng ngôi trường này quá nhỏ, các giáo viên của chúng tôi không có đủ năng lực để dạy dỗ cậu bé. Bởi vậy, xin ông bà hãy tự kèm cặp con trai mình".

Kể từ đó, Edison được mẹ, cũng từng là giáo viên ở Canada kèm cặp, dạy dỗ mà không đến trường thêm lần nào nữa.

Nhiều năm sau đó, mẹ của Edison đã qua đời, còn con trai bà thì trở thành một trong những nhà phát minh vĩ đại nhất thế kỷ 20, người được mệnh danh là "Thầy phù thủy ở Menlo Park" nhờ những sáng chế thiên tài cống hiến cho nhân loại.

Một ngày, khi xem lại những kỷ vật của gia đình, Edison vô tình nhìn thấy một tờ giấy gập nhỏ được cất trong ngăn kéo bàn. Tò mò mở ra đọc, trước mắt cậu chính là lá thư của thầy giáo năm nào. Trong thư, có đoạn: "Con trai ông bà là đứa trẻ rối trí. Chúng tôi không thể chấp nhận cho trò ấy đến trường được nữa".

Edison đã khóc hàng giờ sau khi đọc lá thư năm nào. Thiên tài viết trong nhật ký rằng: "Thomas Alva Edison là một đứa trẻ rối trí, vậy mà, nhờ có một người mẹ tuyệt vời, cậu đã trở thành thiên tài của thế kỷ".(Sưu tầm)

 NHỮNG CÂU NÓI NỔI TIẾNG

1. “Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration.” Thành công 90% là mồ hôi và 10% là cảm hứng.

2. “To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” Để có một ý tưởng lớn, hãy có thật nhiều ý tưởng.

3. “Great ideas originate in the muscles.” Những ý tưởng lớn bắt nguồn từ cơ bắp.

4. “What you are will show in what you do.” Con người của bạn sẽ thể hiện trong điều bạn làm.

5. “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” Bất mãn là sự sự cần thiết đầu tiên cho tiến bộ.

6. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Tôi không thất bại. Chỉ là tôi đã tìm ra 10,000 cách không hoạt động.

7. “There is a better way for everything. Find it.” Luôn luôn có cách tốt hơn cho mọi thứ. Hãy tìm nó.

8. “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” Để phát minh, bạn cần một trí tưởng tượng tốt và một đống phế thải.

9.There is no substitute for hard work.  Không có gì thay thế được sự siêng năng.

10.There’s a way to do it better – find it.  Luôn có một cách làm tốt hơn, hãy tìm kiếm.

11.Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Điểm yếu lớn nhất của chúng ta nằm trong việc từ bỏ. Cách chắc chắn nhất để thành công luôn là cố gắng thêm một lần nữa.

12.Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Nhiều kẻ thất bại trong đời là những người không nhận ra họ đã gần với thành công như thế nào khi họ từ bỏ.

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One day a mentally troubled child came home and gave a letter to his mother. He told her, “My teacher gave this letter to me and told me to only give it to my mother.” Reading through the letter, the mother could not believe her eyes. Gradually her eyes filled with tears. “Mum is there a problem? Did I do something wrong in school" The boy asked. With a shaky voice, the mother slowly began to read the contents of the letter to her son. “Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have enough good teachers to train him. Please teach him yourself.” The boy was dumbfounded. The next morning, Nancy Edison pulled her son out of the school and from that day, began to teach him diligently at home. Many years later, Thomas Edison had grown into the most prolific inventor of his time. He had invented the electric light bulb, the first electric generator, the first record player (called the phonograph then), submarine radar, a cinema, and about one thousand other inventions that helped to usher-in the modern age. He was celebrated world-wide as the father of invention. Meanwhile his mother had passed away quietly. One day he was going through her closet and found the letter which was given to him by his teacher for his mother. He remembered it was the same letter that made his mother pull him out of school and undertake many years of home schooling. So he opened it. The message written on the letter was, “Your son is mentally ill. We can not let him attend our school anymore. He is expelled.” Thomas Edison then realized what his mother did, which probably saved his life and future. For several hours he sat motionless with tears streaming down his face. Finally, he gathered enough strength and wrote in his diary, “Thomas Alva Edison was a mentally ill child whose mother turned him into the genius of the century.” LESSONS - A single word can make or destroy your child's future. (Continued on F.B) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgKeavEDrNCSOivyYKqXayxtDsCqzsnrl_wMQA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Thomas Alva Edition

Thomas Alva Edition

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman. He invented a number of devices that greatly affected the entire world. His contributions to phonographs, film cameras, long-lasting light bulbs, etc. A newspaper reporter addressed him as a magician from Menlopark (now Edition, New Jersey). He was the first inventor to use the principles of mass production and the principle of large-scale teamwork. He is also said to be the founder of the first industrial-based laboratory. Edison is the 4th greatest inventor in history to have patented 1,043 United States patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He made many inventions in the field of communication, especially telecommunications. These included stock tickers, mechanical voting counters, electric car batteries, electric power, music records and motion pictures. While working as a telegraph operator, he excelled in all of this. Edison first thought about generating electricity and distributing it to homes, businesses and factories. Its first power plant was in Manhattan Island, New York.

Childhood life-- Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and raised in Port Huron, Michigan. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (born 1804-96 in Marshall Town, Nova Scotia, Canada) and Nancy Matthews Eliot (born 1810-1871 in Chenango County, New York). His father had to flee Canada because of the failed Mackenzie Rebellion of 1837. Edison considered himself a descendant of the Dutch. At school, Edison's head was unstable, so her teacher, Reverend Engle, called her crazy. That's when Edison's three-month school year ended. "My mother made me. She was so sure of me, she trusted me so much that I thought I had a reason to live, I couldn't make anyone sad. Her mother taught her at home. It came from the Union of Schools of Natural Philosophy and The Cooper Union.

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Thomas Edison Biography

Thomas Edison - Inventor

The inventor of the light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture, Thomas Edison was granted 400 patents from 1879 to 1886. Though he changed technology forever, not all of his inventions were successful.

Biog Born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison rose from humble beginnings to work as an inventor of major technology. Setting up a lab in Menlo Park, some of the products he developed included the telegraph, phonograph, the first commercially practical incandescent electric light bulb, alkaline storage batteries and Kinetograph (a camera for motion pictures). He died on October 18, 1931, in West Orange, New Jersey. Younger Years Inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. He was the last of the seven children of Samuel and Nancy Edison. Thomas's father was an exiled political activist from Canada. His mother, an accomplished school teacher, was a major influence in Thomas’ early life. An early bout with scarlet fever as well as ear infections left him with hearing difficulties in both ears, a malady that would eventually leave him nearly deaf as an adult. Edison would later recount as an adult, with variations on the story, that he lost his hearing due to a train incident where his ears were injured. But others have tended to discount this as the sole cause of his hearing loss. In 1854, the family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, where Edison attended public school for a total of 12 weeks. A hyperactive child, prone to distraction, he was deemed "difficult" by his teacher. His mother quickly pulled him from school and taught him at home. At age 11, he showed a voracious appetite for knowledge, reading books on a wide range of subjects. In this wide-open curriculum Edison developed a process for self-education and learning independently that would serve him throughout his life. Early Career  At age 12, Edison set out to put much of that education to work. He convinced his parents to let him sell newspapers to passengers along the Grand Trunk Railroad line. Exploiting his access to the news bulletins teletyped to the station office each day, Thomas began publishing his own small newspaper, called the Grand Trunk Herald. The up-to-date articles were a hit with passengers. This was the first of what would become a long string of entrepreneurial ventures where he saw a need and capitalized on opportunity. Edison also used his access to the railroad to conduct chemical experiments in a small laboratory he set up in a train baggage car. During one of his experiments, a chemical fire started and the car caught fire. The conductor rushed in and struck Thomas on the side of the head, probably furthering some of his hearing loss. He was kicked off the train and forced to sell his newspapers at various stations along the route. While he worked for the railroad, a near-tragic event turned fortuitous for the young man. After Edison saved a 3-year-old from being run over by an errant train, the child’s grateful father rewarded him by teaching him to operate a telegraph. By age 15, he had learned enough to be employed as a telegraph operator. QUOTES - “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison For the next five years, Edison traveled throughout the Midwest as an itinerant telegrapher, subbing for those who had gone to the Civil War. In his spare time, he read widely, studied and experimented with telegraph technology, and became familiar with electrical science. In 1866, at age 19, Edison moved to Louisville, Kentucky, working for The Associated Press. The night shift allowed him to spend most of his time reading and experimenting. He developed an unrestricted style of thinking and inquiry, proving things to himself through objective examination and experimentation. Initially, Edison excelled at his telegraph job because early Morse code was inscribed on a piece of paper, so Edison's partial deafness was no handicap. However, as the technology advanced, receivers were increasingly equipped with a sounding key, enabling telegraphers to "read" message by the sound of the clicks. This left Edison disadvantaged, with fewer and fewer opportunities for employment. In 1868, Edison returned home to find his beloved mother was falling into mental illness and his father was out of work. The family was almost destitute. Edison realized he needed to take control of his future. Upon the suggestion of a friend, he ventured to Boston, landing a job for the Western Union Company. At the time, Boston was America's center for science and culture, and Edison revelled in it. In his spare time, he designed and patented an electronic voting recorder for quickly tallying votes in the legislature. However, Massachusetts lawmakers were not interested. As they explained, most legislators didn't want votes tallied quickly. They wanted time to change the minds of fellow legislators.

Becoming an Inventor  In 1869, Edison moved to New York City and developed his first invention, an improved stock ticker, the Universal Stock Printer, which synchronized several stock tickers' transactions. The Gold and Stock Telegraph Company was so impressed, they paid him $40,000 for the rights. Edison was only 22 years old. With this success, he quit his work as a telegrapher to devote himself full-time to inventing. In 1870, Thomas Edison set up his first small laboratory and manufacturing facility in Newark, New Jersey, and employed several machinists. As an independent entrepreneur, Edison formed numerous partnerships and developed his products for the highest bidder. Often that was Western Union Telegraph Company, the industry leader, but just as often, it was one of Western Union's rivals. In one such instance, Edison devised for Western Union the quadruplex telegraph, capable of transmitting two signals in two different directions on the same wire, but railroad tycoon Jay Gould snatched the invention from Western Union, paying Edison more than $100,000 in cash, bonds and stock, and generating years of litigation. With his ever-increasing financial success, in 1871 Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell, who was an employee at one of his businesses. During their 13-year marriage, they had three children, Marion, Thomas and William, who became an inventor. Mary died of a suspected brain tumor at the age of 29 in 1884. By the early 1870s, Thomas Edison had acquired a reputation as a first-rate inventor. In 1876, he moved his expanding ope rations to Menlo Park, New Jersey, and built an independent industrial research facility incorporating machine shops and laboratories. That same year, Western Union encouraged him to develop a communication device to compete with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone. He never did. However, in December of 1877, Edison developed a method for recording sound: the phonograph. Though not commercially viable for another decade, the invention brought him worldwide fame. The 1880s would be a busy time for Thomas Edison too. Edison Illuminating Company In the early 1800s, English inventor Humphry Davy created the first early electric arc lamp and during the next several decades scientists such as Warren de la Rue, Joseph Wilson Swan, Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans worked to perfect electric light bulbs or tubes using a vacuum, but were unsuccessful in their attempts to commercialize an efficient electric light bulb. Edison was also driven to perfect a commercially practical incandescent light bulb. After making improvements in his design (as well as buying Woodward and Evans' patent in 1879), he was granted a patent for his own improved light bulb in 1879, and began to manufacture and market it for widespread use. In January 1880, Edison set out to develop a company that would deliver the electricity to power and light the cities of the world. That same year, Edison founded the Edison Illuminating Company—the first investor-owned electric utility—which later became the General Electric Corporation.- In 1881, he left Menlo Park to establish facilities in several cities where electrical systems were being installed. In 1882, the Pearl Street generating station provided 110 volts of electrical power to 59 customers in lower Manhattan. In 1884 Edison's wife, Mary, died, and in 1886, he married Mina Miller, 19 years his junior. In 1887, Edison built an industrial research laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, which served as the primary research laboratory for the Edison lighting companies. He spent most of his time there, supervising the development of lighting technology and power systems. He also perfected the phonograph, and developed the motion picture camera and the alkaline storage battery. Industrialist and Business Manager Over the next few decades, Edison found his role as inventor transitioning to one as industrialist and business manager. The laboratory in West Orange was too large and complex for any one man to completely manage, and Edison found he was not as successful in his new role as he was in his former one. Edison also found that much of the future development and perfection of his inventions was being conducted by university-trained mathematicians and scientists. He worked best in intimate, unstructured environments with a handful of assistants and was outspoken about his disdain for academia and corporate operations. He eventually became embroiled in a longstanding rivalry with Nikola Tesla, an engineering visionary with academic training who worked with Edison's company for a time, parting ways in 1885. The two would publicly clash about the use of direct current electricity, which Edison favored, vs. alternating currents, which Tesla championed. The latter inventor entered into a partnership with George Westinghouse, an Edison competitor as well, and thus a major business feud over electrical power came into being. One of the unusual and cruel ways Edison tried to convince people of the dangers of alternating current was through public demonstrations in which animals were electrocuted. One of the most infamous of these shows was the 1903 electrocution of a circus elephant named Topsy in New York's Coney Island. On a couple of occasions, Edison was able to turn failure into success. During the 1890s, he built a magnetic iron-ore processing plant in northern New Jersey that proved to be a commercial failure. Later, he was able to salvage the process into a better method for producing cement. On April 23, 1896, Edison became the first person to project a motion picture, holding the world's first motion picture screening at Koster & Bial's Music Hall in New York City. As the automobile industry began to grow, Edison worked on developing a suitable storage battery that could power an electric car. Though the gasoline-powered engine eventually prevailed, Edison designed a battery for the self-starter on the Model T for friend and admirer Henry Ford in 1912. The system was used extensively in the auto industry for decades. During World War I, the U.S. government asked Thomas Edison to head the Naval Consulting Board, which examined inventions submitted for military use. Edison worked on several projects, including submarine detectors and gun-location techniques. However, due to his moral indignation toward violence, he specified that he would work only on defensive weapons, later noting, "I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill." By the end of the 1920s Thomas Edison was in his 80s and he slowed down somewhat, but not before he applied for the last of his 1,093 U.S. patents, for an apparatus for holding objects during the electroplating process. Edison and his second wife, Mina, spent part of their time at their winter retreat in Fort Myers, Florida, where his friendship with automobile tycoon Henry Ford flourished and he continued to work on several projects, ranging from electric trains to finding a domestic source for natural rubber. Final Years Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home, "Glenmont," in West Orange, New Jersey. He was 84 years old. Many communities and corporations throughout the world dimmed their lights or briefly turned off their electrical power to commemorate his passing. Edison's career was the quintessential rags-to-riches success story that made him a folk hero in America. An uninhibited egoist, he could be a tyrant to employees and ruthless to competitors. Though he was a publicity seeker, he didn’t socialize well and often neglected his family. By the time he died he was one of the most well-known and respected Americans in the world. He had been at the forefront of America’s first technological revolution and set the stage for the modern electric world. Edison, considered one of America's leading businessmen, is credited today for helping to build America's economy during the nation's vulnerable early years. Albert Jack AUDIOBOOKS available for download here  

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OCT 17 - UN DIA COMO HOY – (1888) – THOMAS EDISON PATENTA EL FONÓGRAFO ÓPTICO – LA PRIMERA PELÍCULA. -

Thomas Alva Edison, nació en Milán, Ohio, el 11 de febrero de 1847 y falleció en West Orange, Nueva Jersey, 18 de octubre de 1931. Fue un empresario y un prolífico inventor, considerado el inventor más importante de Estados Unidos. ​

Desarrolló muchos dispositivos que han tenido gran influencia en todo el mundo, como el fonógrafo, la cámara de cine o una duradera bombilla incandescente.

Apodado «El mago de Menlo Park», Edison fue uno de los primeros inventores en aplicar los principios de la producción en cadena y el trabajo en equipo a gran escala al proceso de invención, motivos por los cuales se le reconoce la creación del primer laboratorio de investigación industrial. ​

Edison fue un inventor prolífico que registró 1093 patentes a su nombre en Estados Unidos, además de otras en Reino Unido, Francia y Alemania.  

Pero más importante que sus muchas patentes fue el amplio impacto que tuvieron algunas de sus invenciones: la luz eléctrica y el suministro público de electricidad, la grabación de sonido y la cinematografía se convirtieron en nuevas y poderosas industrias en todo el mundo.

Sus inventos contribuyeron en particular a las telecomunicaciones, como una máquina de voto, una batería para un automóvil eléctrico, la energía eléctrica, la grabación de música y las películas. Sus avanzados trabajos en estos campos no fueron más que una continuación de su primer trabajo como radiotelegrafista. Edison desarrolló un sistema de generación y distribución de energía eléctrica a las casas, ​ negocios y fábricas, un avance crucial para el mundo industrializado moderno.

Hijo de Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (1804-1896) y Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810-1871). Sus antepasados provenían de Ámsterdam y se establecieron en el río Passaic, en Nueva Jersey. John Edison, el abuelo del inventor, se alistó en el bando de los británicos durante la Guerra de Independencia y, a final de la misma, tuvo que refugiarse en Nueva Escocia. Después de un tiempo se trasladó a Canadá para residir en Bangham, en la zona del lago Erie. Cuando estalló la rebelión canadiense en 1837, Samuel Edison (padre del inventor) se unió a los insurgentes. Una vez más la familia se vio obligada a huir a los Estados Unidos. ​

En 1840 Samuel Edison estableció una pequeña maderería en Milán, Ohio. Antes de que la familia se estableciera en Milán, su esposa Nancy, una canadiense de ascendencia escocesa, había tenido cuatro hijos.

Posteriormente tuvo tres más, pero murieron tres de los primeros en la década de 1840 y los sobrevivientes tenían catorce, dieciséis y dieciocho años cuando el 11 de febrero de 1847, la esposa de Samuel Edison dio a luz a su séptimo hijo. Le llamaron "Thomas" por un antepasado de la familia, y "Alva" en honor del capitán Alva Bradley.

En 1855 a los ocho años y medio Edison entra a la escuela. Después de tres meses de estar asistiendo, regresó a su casa llorando, informando que el maestro lo había calificado de alumno "estéril e improductivo". Es imposible establecer si Nancy Edison tomó muy en serio la opinión de su maestro o si pensó que ella era mejor que el profesor de su hijo. El caso es que Edison recordó durante el resto de su vida el resultado del dichoso incidente.

En 1859 empezó a vender diarios en el tren matutino que iba de Port Huron a Detroit, así como verduras, mantequilla y moras. En Detroit el tren hacía una parada de seis horas, las cuales aprovechaba pasándolas en el salón de lectura de la Asociación de Jóvenes (después Biblioteca Gratuita de Detroit). Ahí, comenzaba por leer el primer libro que se encontraba en el anaquel inferior y seguía por orden con los demás hasta terminar con toda la hilera.

Edison no quedaba satisfecho con solo leer, y comenzó a realizar diversos experimentos basándose en lo que leía en los libros de Ciencia. Utilizaba un vagón vacío como laboratorio, donde también instaló una pequeña prensa de mano que se agenció cuando un amigo del Detroit Free Press le regaló algunos tipos. El resultado fue inmediato: el Grand Trunk Herald, semanario del que Edison tiraba cuatrocientos ejemplares.

Tras salvar a un niño en las vías del tren en Port Huron, el agradecido padre de la criatura J. U. Mackenzie (telegrafista de la estación) le enseñó código morse y telegrafía. A los quince años obtuvo su primer trabajo como telegrafista, reemplazando a uno de los operadores de telégrafo que habían ido a servir en la Guerra Civil.

A los 16 años, después de trabajar en varias oficinas de telégrafos, donde realizó numerosos experimentos, finalmente llegó con su primera auténtica invención, llamada "repetidor automático", que transmite señales de telégrafo entre estaciones sin personal, lo que permite que prácticamente cualquiera pueda traducir fácilmente y con precisión un código a su propio ritmo y conveniencia. Curiosamente, nunca patentó la versión inicial de esta idea. jaimeariansen@outlook.com

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La genial madre de un genio. . Un día Thomas Edison llegó a casa y le dio a su madre Nancy Elliot una nota. Él le dijo a ella: • "Mi maestro me dio esta nota y me dijo que sólo se la diera a mi madre." Cuando ella leyó, en voz alta, a su hijo la carta que él le trajo, sus ojos estaban llenos de lágrimas. Ella leyó: • "Su hijo es un genio, esta escuela es muy pequeña para él y no tenemos buenos maestros para enseñarlo, por favor enséñele usted". Muchos años después la madre de Edison falleció, y él fue uno de los más grandes inventores de los siglos XIX y XX. Un día él estaba ordenando algunas cosas antiguas de la familia. Repentinamente vio un papel extraño doblado con un dibujo en el escritorio. Él lo tomó y lo abrió. En el papel estaba escrito: • "Su hijo está mentalmente enfermo y no podemos permitirle que venga más a la escuela." En Estados Unidos el «Día de los Inventores Nacionales» se conmemora el 11 de febrero, aniversario del nacimiento precisamente de Thomas Alva Edison https://www.instagram.com/p/B0i_E-0Jdu3/?igshid=1mom65wzku7vs

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Lucy the Babysitter

S5;E16 ~ January 16, 1967

Synopsis

When Mr. Mooney challenges Lucy to find another job, she goes to an employment agency that sends her out to babysit – a family of chimpanzees!  

Regular Cast

Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Gale Gordon (Theodore J. Mooney)

Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis) and Roy Roberts (Mr. Cheever) do not appear in this episode. 

Guest Cast

Mary Wickes (Mrs. Winslow) was one of Lucille Ball's closest friends and at one time, a neighbor. She made a memorable appearances on “I Love Lucy” as ballet mistress Madame Lamond in “The Ballet” (ILL S1;E19). In her initial “Lucy Show” appearances her characters name was Frances, but she then made four more as a variety of characters including as Mary Jane's Aunt Gussie. Wickes appeared in nine episodes of “Here’s Lucy.” Their final collaboration on screen was “Lucy Calls the President” in 1977.

The last time Wickes appeared on the series was “Lucy and the Sleeping Beauty” (S4;E9) which starred Clint Walker as Frank Winslow, the same surname that Mary Wickes is given here.

Elvia Allman (Miss Allman) is best remembered as the barking Candy Factory foreman in “Job Switching” (ILL S2;E1) although she also played four other characters on “I Love Lucy”. She last appeared on the series in “Lucy Bags a Bargain” (S4;E17) co-starring Jonathan Hole, who also appears in this episode. 

Elvia Allman uses her own name in this episode. She runs the Unique Employment Agency.  

Jonathan Hole (Jonathan Winslow) was seen in eight Broadway plays between 1924 and 1934. His screen career began in 1951. This is the second of his three appearances on the series. He also did two episodes of “Here’s Lucy.”

Joyce Smith (Sister) was a member of the English singing group The Vernon Girls, first formed in Liverpool in 1953.  

The Marquis Chimps began appearing on television in 1955.  Their trainer was Gene Detroy. They appeared in several TV commercials and on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”  The chimps were the (non-human) stars of the sitcom “The Hathaways” (1961-62) in which a suburban couple kept three performing chimps as their children. The program lasted just one season on ABC.  The act's last TV appearance was in 1976.

Mary Wickes says the chimps names are Danny (red striped shirt), Charlie (black striped shirt), and Bobbie (short for Roberta, the baby). Charlie was the only one to have been billed on “The Hathaways” although “The Lucy Show” may have changed the names of the other two to make the names easier for Lucy to say and remember.  

This episode as well as the entire fifth season of “The Lucy Show” (except for "Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map”) inadvertently fell out of copyright protection and entered public domain resulting in many low-quality VHS and DVD editions.

A black and white publicity still sent to media outlets.  

Seeing Lucy trying to fix her new electric typewriter with the heel of her shoe, Mr. Mooney says “Those boots were made for walking,” a reference to the Nancy Sinatra hit song of 1966 “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’.” Lucy prefers her old manual typewriter saying “Tom Edison himself couldn't work this one.” Although Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) is credited with many modern innovations, the typewriter is not one of them. The first commercially viable typewriter is credited to inventor and politician Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-90). 

Lucy is trying to get used to her new electric typewriter - if she can remember to plug it in!  Once she gets the hang of it, she says:

“It practically types by itself! I bet someday they do invent a typewriter that types by itself!”

Is Lucy predicting the advent of voice recognition software?  Her fanciful wish has become a reality - without the clunky hardware.  

Lucy Carmichael says she lives at the Glenhall Apartments, 780 North Gower Street. This was actually the address of Desilu Studios (formerly RKO, now Paramount) in Hollywood!  

When doing a word association test with Miss Allman, Lucy connects “hair” with “dye” and then remarks “I just use a little henna.” Lucille Ball started coloring her hair with Egyptian henna in 1942, to set herself apart in technicolor movies. Her hair stylist Irma Kusely was instructed to keep the formula under top secret. In “The Publicity Agent” (ILL S1;E31) Lucy claims that she's “not a 'maharincess' but a 'henna-rinsess'.”  When a heavily bandaged Lucy thinks there's a fire in the apartment during “Fred and Ethel Fight” (ILL S1;E22) the only thing she tries to save are two bottles of Henna Rinse!  

She then associates the word “carry” with “Grant,” remarking that “these days he can use a babysitter.” In 1966, actor Cary Grant became a father at the age of 62 and retired from screen acting.  A favorite of Lucy Ricardo's, Grant's name was mentioned five times on “I Love Lucy,” although the closest Lucille Ball ever got to working with Grant was on TV variety specials and award shows.

To demonstrate her fitness for a babysitting job, Lucy's repeats her mother's child-rearing poem:  

“If you want a happy baby, here's the thing to try.   Keep one end fed and the other dry.”

Lucy tells the woman at the employment agency that her two children are away at school, one of the few mentions of Chris and Jerry (who she last referred to as Jimmy) in quite a while. 

Lucy tells Bobbie to say her prayers before going to bed and the chimp clasps her hands in the traditional praying position. This was obviously one of the ‘tricks’ that the chimps knew and was integrated into the script. “Lucy” shows rarely talk about religion. The notable exception is Lucy Ricardo telling Little Ricky to go to bed and say his prayers in “The I Love Lucy Christmas Show”. 

The Winslows live at 1711 Valley Meadow Road. Valley Meadow Road is a real street in Sherman Oaks, California, outside of Los Angeles, although in reality there is no number 1711.  

Then entire second half of this episode consists of Lucille Ball (age 55) ad libbing dialogue and business as the chimps went through certain set comic routines, their trainer just off camera. A cigarette smoker, Ball is noticeably winded by her ordeal with the unpredictable chimps.  

This is the first time live chimps have been part of a “Lucy Show” episode. Previously, simian characters were played by actors in monkey suits. The Marquis Chimps join a long line of live animal actors Lucy has shared the set with: dogs, sheep, seals, dolphins, donkeys, deer, goats, geese, turkeys, chickens, rabbits, birds, cows, horses, and bears. Many more will turn up in future episodes and on “Here's Lucy.”  

Charlie turns on the TV and a soap opera is on. Lucy tells him to turn it off – he's too young for “Peyton Place.”  This is the third mention of the phenomenally successful TV show.  Based on a 1956 novel, “Peyton Place” was a primetime soap opera that aired on ABC from 1964 to 1969. The title has become synonymous with the romantic problems and scandals of small-town life. It was previously mentioned in “Lucy and Joan” (S4;E4) and “Lucy's Substitute Secretary” (S5;E14).

When Lucy sings “Rock-a-bye Baby” to Bobby, Charlie gives her the raspberry. Lucy says “Barbra Streisand I'm not.” From 1963 to 1968 singer Barbra Streisand was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards, winning several.  At the time this episode was filmed, Streisand had not yet made her first film, an adaptation of her stage hit Funny Girl in 1968. She is now considered one of the most successful entertainment artists in the history of show business.  

Lucy plays Brahms' Lullaby on an electric organ that the Winslow's just happen to have in the chimps' bedroom. Charlie once again gives Lucy a raspberry so she says “if you think you can do any better, you play.” Naturally Charlie does! Both Lucy and Charlie's playing is dubbed from an offstage organ.

One of the toys in the chimp’s bedroom is Clancy The Great, a plastic-cast roller skating monkey, not unlike the Marquis Chimps, who also roller skate.  He had pose-able arms and a removable cap. It was manufactured by Ideal Toys in 1963.

Callbacks!

Lucy Ricardo was babysitter to rambunctious twins in “The Amateur Hour” (ILL S1;E14).  When taking the job, she tells Ethel that “for $5 an hour I'd babysit with a baby gorilla!” Be careful what you wish for!  The babysitting job to mind three Winslow “children” pays $5 and hour. Fifteen years earlier Lucy Ricardo earned the same amount for sitting with the Hudson twins. In this episode Danny and Charlie Winslow play cowboys and Indians just like Jimmy and Timmy Hudson did in 1952.

Elvia Allman was also in the episode where Lucy Ricardo went to the Acme Employment Agency and found employment at the Candy Factory in “Job Switching” (ILL S2;E1).  

Next to the chimps' bunk bed is a yellow hound dog toy (possibly Disney's Pluto), several of which were used in the toy factory scene in “Lucy and the Efficiency Expert” (S5;E13, inset photo). 

Elephants are not new to Desilu. The final visual gag of “The Kleptomaniac” (ILL S1;E27) also featured a baby elephant. Lucy Carmichael dealt with a massive full-grown pachyderm in “Lucy Misplaces $2000” (S1;E4).  In 1965, Lucille Ball rode down a NYC street atop an elephant for the premiere episode of “The Steve Lawrence Show.”  Ball was slated to play Angel the Elephant Girl in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1952 film The Greatest Show on Earth but fate intervened and Ball  got pregnant and never got to make the film.

Flash Forward!

Lucy visits the Unique Employment Agency when looking for a new job. This is the name of the employment agency Lucy and Harry (Gale Gordon) Carter work for in “Here's Lucy.” In script supervisor Milt Josefsberg's book on comedy writing, he described how they reused the concept for a unique employment agency as the basis for Lucille Ball's new show.  In this episode their motto is “Odd Jobs for odd people” but in “Here's Lucy” it is changed to “Unusual jobs for unusual people.”

Live chimps were also seen on several episodes of “Here’s Lucy”.

A brief clip from the episode is used in episode 2 “Gone Ape” of the HBO 2024 docuseries Chimp Crazy. 

Blooper Alerts!

Experience Required! Lucy tells Miss Allman that she has two years of business college but in “Lucy's College Reunion” (S2;E11), we learn that Lucy Carmichael attended (fictional) Milroy University, a four-year liberal arts college.

Never Work With Children & Animals! Although not seen on screen, the baby elephant brought on at the end of the episode went wild and pushed Mary Wickes into one of the prop trees. The trainer had to physically subdue the elephant to get it away from Wickes, who injured her arm. Lucille Ball quickly scooped up the baby chimps in her arms to protect them. The final cut ends with the entrance of the baby elephant. 

Hole in the Wall! Two months earlier, Jonathan Hole played Mr. Haskell, a hotel manager, in “Lucy and Carol in Palm Springs” (S5;E8) where he stood in front of the same stone wall backdrop that he does here. The only difference is the foliage. 

“Lucy the Babysitter” rates 4 Paper Hearts out of 5 

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Thomas Edison Would Have Been Given Adderall Today

“The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.” – Thomas Edison

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In 1855, when he was eight years old, Thomas Edison enrolled in school for the first time. After 12 weeks, his teacher, Reverend G. Engle, called him “addled,” or unable to think clearly. Edison apparently hated school and its heavy focus on sitting, memorizing, and repeating. As biographer, Louise Egan, explains: “Tom was confused by Reverend Engle’s way of teaching. He could not learn through fear. Nor could he just sit and memorize. He liked to see things for himself and ask questions.”[1]

Edison’s mother, Nancy Edison, approached Reverend Engle about her son but found his ways too rigid. She felt that he forced things on the children. His mother quickly decided to pull Tom from school and allow him to learn at home, where he developed a passion for books and knowledge. Edison’s education was largely self-directed, with his mother avoiding most top-down instruction and instead allowing Edison to learn naturally. Edison’s biographer, Matthew Josephson, writes: “She avoided forcing or prodding and made an effort to engage his interest by reading him works of good literature and history that she had learned to love…”[2]

Nancy Edison facilitated her son’s learning by noticing the things that interested him and by gathering books and resources to help him explore those topics more fully. Nothing was forced. There was no coercion. Edison became a voracious reader, and by the time he was 12 he had read the great works of Dickens and Shakespeare and many others. He became interested in science so his mother brought him a book on the physical sciences—R.G. Parker’s School of Natural Philosophy—and he performed every experiment within it. This led to a passion for chemistry, so his mother gathered more books for him. Edison spent all of his extra money to gather chemicals from a local pharmacist and to purchase science equipment, and he conducted his first experiments in a makeshift lab in his home’s basement while still just a tween. Josephson writes that in allowing Edison so much freedom and self-direction, his mother “brought him to the stage of learning things for himself, learning that which most amused and interested him, and she encouraged him to go on in that path.” Edison himself wrote about his mother: “She understood me; she let me follow my bent.”[3]

With over 1,000 U.S. patents, Thomas Edison went on to become one of the greatest inventors of all time, creating the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and, most famously, the incandescent light bulb. Books were the foundation of Edison’s education. He was one of the first library cardholders at the Detroit Free Library, and later in his massive laboratory in New Jersey he placed his desk in the center of the lab’s library, surrounded by thousands of books. One of Edison’s chemists, Martin Andre Rosanoff, concluded: “Had Edison been formerly schooled, he might not have had the audacity to create such impossible things…”[4]

Today, I hope that Nancy Edison would have the same confidence and grit to reject her son’s label of addled, or unfocused, and avoid the push to diagnose him with, and medicate him for, an attention disorder like ADHD. What if Edison had stayed in school and were prescribed Adderall, a potent amphetamine drug commonly used to treat ADHD, for his “addled” thinking? Would we all still be sitting in the dark?

For children with a natural tendency to be active and moving, or who don’t learn best by sitting still and listening passively to an adult, school is not a good fit. These children are often frustrated by school and its rigidity, and teachers are frustrated by behavior that can make classroom control an issue. Schooling and normal childhood behaviors are very often incompatible. In fact, many of the families I know who decided to home-school their children–often without ever considering the option before–did so because they realized that schooling was crushing their child’s originality, creativity, and exuberance. Like Nancy Edison, they wanted better for their children.

Boston College psychology professor, Dr. Peter Gray, explains that ADHD diagnoses often begin with teacher evaluations and are fundamentally a school problem–not a child problem. He writes:

“What does it mean to have ADHD? Basically, it means failure to adapt to the conditions of standard schooling. Most diagnoses of ADHD originate with teachers’ observations. In the typical case, a child has been a persistent pain in the neck in school–not paying attention, not completing assignments, disrupting class with excessive movements and verbal outbursts–and the teacher, consequently, urges the parents to consult with a clinician about the possibility that the child has ADHD…. The child may then be put on a drug such as Adderall or Concerta, with the result, usually, that the child’s behavior in school improves. The student begins to do what the teacher asks him to do; the classroom is less disrupted; and the parents are relieved. The drug works.”

ADHD is fundamentally a “failure to adapt to the conditions of standard schooling.” Without schooling, as Dr. Gray discovered upon further research, “most ADHD-diagnosed kids do fine without drugs” and they “do especially well when they are allowed to take charge of their own education.” As schooling lengthens and becomes more restrictive–beginning at ever-earlier ages–ADHD diagnoses and drug treatments are likely to continue to skyrocket. According to data from the National Survey of Children’s Health, up to 15% of children are now diagnosed with ADHD. And between 1991 and 1995, the number of children aged two to four who were prescribed stimulant drugs for alleged attention disorders rose by 300 percent! [5] Toddlers on amphetamines!

Nancy Edison was brave. She saw the energy and creativity in her young son, and also spotted quickly the ways in which schooling smothers both. She removed her son from school and allowed him to learn at home in a self-directed way, through books and hands-on experimentation. She connected him to resources to help him learn and then allowed him the freedom to direct his own education. She rejected schooling in favor of learning for Thomas Edison, and today all of us reap the benefits of her wise parental actions.

[1] Egan, Louise. Thomas Edison: The Great American Inventor. New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 1987, p. 11.

[2] Josephson, Matthew. Edison: A Biography. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992, p. 22.

[3] ibid.

[4] Josephson, Matthew. Edison: A Biography. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992, p. 412.

[5] Zito, Julie Magno, et al. “Trends in the Prescribing of Psychotropic Medications to Preschoolers,” JAMA 283, no. 8 (2000).

Kerry McDonald

Kerry McDonald has a B.A. in Economics from Bowdoin and an M.Ed. in education policy from Harvard. She lives in Cambridge, Mass. with her husband and four never-been-schooled children. Follow her writing at Whole Family Learning.

This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article.

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