Between 1877 and 1891 Thomas Edison and his team at Menlo Park and West Orange, New Jersey produced the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb, and the kinetograph motion picture camera. The hosts frame Edison's larger contribution as inventing the industrial research and development laboratory itself, a model where a team of researchers with pooled resources and infrastructure is organized to produce inventions systematically rather than relying on lone inventors.
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The hosts credit Edison's aggressive patent enforcement on motion picture technology with driving early filmmakers away from the East Coast to California, which they say is why Hollywood became the center of the film industry.
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The town of Edison, New Jersey is named for him and sits near Menlo Park and West Orange, the sites of his labs.
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19:00>> Now we are back in invention of technology 1877 to 1891. The invention of the phongraph incandescent light bulb and if you like the movies motion picture camera. Yes. This is Thomas Edison and his team. They pioneered so many things at their laboratory in Menllo Park and West Orange, New Jersey, which now has a town called Edison. Yes. >> Right. Um, so he invented the phongraph, which is the sound making machine. Um, now I can listen to music. He invented the incandescent light bulb. And he invented the kintograph motion picture camera. And when I say he, right, it's not really he. what he what his master
19:41work is is not a single device but the invention of industrial research and development laboratories. He was the guy who brought together a bunch of inventors, a bunch of researchers together and he's like you guys, I'm going to give you all of the resources, all of the infrastructure, make me things >> thingies, >> right? um he he he's the he's the reason why we have a huge motion picture industry um in California because he drove out all of the guys in the east coast who were trying to make motion pictures. He was like, "That's my patent. That's my patent." They're like, "Okay, let's just go as far away as we
20:22can to California and start making motion pictures because then his goons aren't going to come get us." And that's why Hollywood was established. It was to get as far away from Thomas Edison as possible, >> but he still makes our list because, you know, a fair play. >> Fair play. >> You you invented the the video camera, >> right? Shout out to all of uh the homies in Scotch Plains Fanwood, New Jersey, my former hometown, which is right next to Edison, New Jersey, and I spent a lot of time playing soccer in West Orange and Menllo Park. Moving on to 1879, the discovery of the Hall effect. Yes. Um, this is a fundamental discovery made by
21:03Edwin Hall at John's Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He observed that a perpendicular magnetic field would create a transverse voltage on a conductor. So, if I have a magnetic field going this way, there's going to be a voltage perpendicular to that. Um,