John Burroughs
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John Burroughs was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.
Burroughs in 1906
Burroughs poses with Thomas Edison and Henry Ford at Edison's home in Ft. Myers, Florida, 1914.
A 2005 photograph of Slabsides, Burroughs's cabin in West Park, NY; the cabin was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968.
Plaque quoting Burroughs near the summit of Slide Mountain
Thomas Edison
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Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures. The merger of the
John Burroughs
…years, including Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, Henry Ford (who gave him an automobile, one of the first in the Hudson Valley), Harvey Firestone, and Thomas Edison. In 1899, he participated in E. H. Harriman's expedition to Alaska. According to Ford, "John Burroughs, Edison, and I with Harvey S. Firestone made…
Edison, c. 1922
Edison in 1861
Group photo taken as a postcard of the employees in front of the factory at Edison's Newark Factory on Ward St in 1873. Edison is visible peeking out of the fourth floor window; he wrote that he was too busy working to come downstairs.
Edison with the second model of his phonograph in Mathew Brady's studio in Washington, D.C. in April 1878