Great inventors are made of an inner contradiction out is rarely successful entrepreneur. Anyone who has ever tried to register a Patent, know how much the strength of the evidence, to have an idea myself. The General sympathy is always the elucidation of the world Undertook.

Elena Witzeck

editor in the features section.

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Thomas Alva Edison, holder of more than a thousand patents, represented this incompatibility of entrepreneurship and inventive spirit. The awesome ideas to be flowed out of the head, the income but unstable in the bag. The most he did not, apparently, for his experimental designs to market he also knew his ideas on what other acquisitions. In individual cases, the situation was even more complex. But for a story about glory and justice, appeal, and calculation, opportunism, and Conviction of the fabric was already 1940, it is productive to, as a two-part biopic with Spencer Tracy appeared in the work of the inventor of gloomy against the players was threatened.

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Alfonso Gómez-Rejón turned A new Version of the Edison Saga is already in the Winter of 2016. In the American cinema, the Film was not at that time, the competent rental was from one day to the other unpopular has become the name of cream of Tartar. After two years, you trusted then but was again cut back and new scenes shot in order to give the characters more depth.

the action of The film Edison met at a time of his life, as powerful donors, and the American President received him and his wife and children. Currently Edison has developed after years of Tinkering with electric light for domestic use. The Phonograph, the first Instrument to record voices and play has made him famous. Weapons for the government does not want to develop Edison anyway. He’s never going to build devices that kill people. The inventor jumps up and sits in a private train to go home. An entrepreneur who awaits him on the return trip, he leaves on the train track are. It seems, here, to the sleep of his children’s worried father had decided.

all That remains innocent, because, the face, Benedict Cumberbatchs, the once again the Aura of the brilliant nerd surrounds, works reliably. As was Sherlock Holmes Cumberbatch with his adversaries, usually one step ahead, and in “The Imitation Game” as Alan Turing, a Workaholic with autistic features, his girlfriend not even the revelation of his true sexual inclinations, evil took. About Cumberbatch is also now known that he is the great-nephew of the seventeenth degree of Arthur Conan Doyle.

But the genius is trapped in his stubbornness. Of course, it remains a brilliant demonstration of the light-emitting duration of the light bulbs in front of his research lab in Menlo Park, California. Edison’s work for many thousands available, be the same power, however, is not the appropriate supply technique. The other is the aware of the about the in the meantime, the set, always well-dressed, but stubbornly ignored Nikola Tesla, the advocates for alternating current (“you don’t think efficient”). The same George Westinghouse, the great entrepreneur who was left at the station says. Too dangerous, and insists Edison.