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"Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was America's most famous and, arguably, most prolific, inventor. But few realize the extent to which he called Florida home. Between 1885 and his death in 1931, Edison and his family wintered in the sleepy Gulf Coast town of Fort Myers, south of Tampa. There, they were the pride of the small town, which eagerly watched to see what magic the Wizard would conjure." "In 1914, Edison, knowing that his comments often made the rounds of the national press, said to a reporter, "There is only one Fort Myers and 90 million people [the U.S. population at the time] are going to find out."" "Edison's presence encouraged Henry Ford to buy the house next door. When the price of rubber soared in the 1920s, Edison's experiments with rubber from local plants paid off for Ford and Harvey Firestone, who together funded his research." In this biography, Michele Albion has amassed details of the Edisons' years in Fort Myers. Using a wide range of little-known resources, including photographs, manuscripts, maps, and newspaper accounts, she presents a uniquely intimate portrait of the inventor as an influential member of a close-knit community. In doing so, she reveals important facets of Edison's life that are largely unknown or overlooked by biographers who fail to make a distinction between "vacationing" and "wintering" in Florida.
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Randall Pulver
reviewed Florida Life of Thomas Edison on September 02, 2013 Florida Life of Thomas Edison
The biography "The Florida Life of Thomas Edison" was a book about Edison living in Florida and slowing modernizing it and improving it. Edison first moved to Florida for a place to build his winter house. Edison truly loved nature, birds, and other wildlife. He thought that lots of Florida was untouched. Florida at the time did not have a very large population, and almost no one had electricity which made it perfect for Edison. When Edison moved there he brought with him the power. He promised power to all the people around where he was living but he did not give it to them right then, it took a few years before power became a big thing in Florida. I really like how the book goes along with his life and saying how Florida started to get bigger faster and faster just by Edison moving there.
I also like how it talks about how Edison and Henry Ford where good friends. Because of his relationship with Ford, he wanted to help him in some way. Edison did lots of experiments to find out if rubber trees could be grown in Florida. Ford needed the rubber for the tires to his cars. Furthermore I like how the book shows a good description of how his house was made, and why it took so long. It took a while because he did not live there for a couple of years so the house did not fully get built.
Later on he built a public pier where people could fish, and his personal steam boat could be docked. The reason that Edison moved to Florida was to find a quiet place he could come in the winter, but that went away after a while. Towards the end of Edison's life, Florida had greatly grown in population and technology. He brought the light to Florida, literally.
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