How Edison are you? [Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge]

Published: August 5, 2007, 11:21 am

So asks a Web site of the same name, suggesting that another online quiz waits in its wings. Not so, but the site is a wealth of information. Edison is perhaps most noted among nonscientists for inventing the lightbulb (which, for once, he in fact did not do; he invented the incandescent lamp and ultimately a new power-grid system to take advantage of same) but the man spent his entire life developing new things and improving existing ones. His first patented invention was an automated vote recorder for Congress, which, it must be said, didn't keep him from moving from the New York City area to Florida in his later years. Along the way he engineered an improved stock ticker (fittingly, the device which provided him his first financial breakthrough), found a better means of preserving fruit, produced a better typerider, contributed mightily to a burgeoning railroad system, made the jobs of printers and photographers easier, pioneered early voice machines, delved into early

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