European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 18 the stars and stripes March daily Magazine Edison with Henry and assistant Francis Jehl reenact creation of first incandescent electric tamp in 1929 on its 50th Henry Ford museum photo new portrait of Thomas Edison up photo Young Edison with a Model of his talking forerunner of the by William Broad new York times insights into the creative Genius of Thomas Alva one of the most prolific inventors of All Are emerging from a million study of his vast collection of personal the new portrait of Edison is marked by his powerful ability never fully recognized until now reason through it was perhaps this trait More than any flashes of brilliance or cries of Eureka that accounted for his great it is now thought that this hidden ability is what transformed one successful invention into eventually producing the the incandescent Light systems of electric Power Genera and motion born on in Edison devoted himself to the quest for invention while still in his at his death in 1931 he left behind More than million pages of notebooks and much of it documenting his no one has Ever produced these documents give you entry into the mind of one of the worlds most creative said Reese a historian and director of the Thomas Edison papers at Rutgers in new in he they Tell a lot about the very essence of invention Edison inventions were often much More closely related in their origins than anyone Ever according to clues being gathered by Jenkins and his for Early drawings of his Sinetos a prototype motion picture reveal that it evolved from Edison already successful the first commercial Kinet scope had film that wound Back and Forth on allowing a Spectator to View moving images through a peephole in the top of the Large from this device it was but a Short step to motion pictures As we know them As Jenkins and his team of historians dug into the Edison they discovered that the device had not sprung to life in a Flash of insight but had evolved slowly from previous the clues were found in preliminary known As that were filed by Edison on the Kinet scope from 1888 to the very first caveat looked nothing like the finished machine but instead showed a Cylinder covered with a spiral of images meant to be viewed through an the resemblance to Edison first made a decade was each of the two inventions feed an Aak and a and each had an instrument stylus or eyepiece that deciphered a spiral of information grooves for inv Ages for r in an Jenkins said that no on the basis of the visual resemblance would dare Sug Gest that Edison had been inspired by this earlier Edison also left a written the first Page of Edison motion picture caveat be gins i am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the a few lines later the invention consists in photo graphing continuously a series of pictures in a continuous spiral on a Cylinder or plate in the same manner As sound is recorded on the we didst have the earliest sketches and Jenkins we  be Able to see the this is what i mean by being Able to get into the creative watching it work by analogy from one very successful invention to Edison didst ultimately solve the problem that the finished Kinet scope looked very but you can see the creative Paul an assistant editor of the Edison said another example of innovation by analogy is seen in Edison work on the incandescent Light although his final invention was a simple the Early versions had regulatory devices to limit the amount of current flowing through and sketches in the Edison notebooks show that the regulatory ideas were drawn from what at first glance looks far removed from electric lights Early work on the regulatory devices were needed for the lights because Edison wanted to employ parallel rather than series when one bulb in a series circuit As often happened in the Early the rest of the bulbs would go in parallel the rest would go on our 20thcentury system of lighting is basically an elaboration of Edison original but there was a each added bulb reduced the total resistance of the parallel according to the Laws of this meant a huge current would be needed to Power a Long string of it was the Power lines from such a Central distribution system to even a modest system of parallel lighting would require More Copper than was available in the whole to solve the Edison increased the individual resistance of his lamps by building current limit ing according to Edison notebooks show that his ideas were borrowed from earlier its dear that his original idea came from Telegram Israel be used the same apr coach be had already with the elec tric fee tried to create a Means of controlling the of current that went into the lamp by the same sort of As work Edison chose thin for his their hallmark being very High after that All the regulatory apparatus was the end result was a simple parallel system that looked nothing like what Edison started but it took an examination of his papers to reveal the unusual Steps that led to the by making Edison personal papers available to scholars and historians around the the Edison papers project Aims to facilitate insights into How the inventor so vast Are the Edison materials that the process of publication will take 20 in addition to papers found at the Edison National historic in West the project Gath ering materials from hundreds of other Sites around the the main sponsors of the project Are Rutgers University the Edison National historic part of the National Park service the new Jersey historical and the smithsonian in Thomas microfilm editor of the Edison released the first part of a six part Micro film it consists of 28 reels of film recording about pages of documents and costs the publisher is University publications of in the publication of the first set of the Edison papers is a tremendous boost to our study of the past As Well As a key to the understanding of the inventive said Melvin Callaway professor of the history of at the Georgia Institute of starting in about a the project will publish the first of 15 to 20 hardcover volumes that will contain a selection of the Edison papers and will include Back ground and biographical it will be published by the Johns Hopkins University the papers have already provided other insights into Edison inventive process in addition to his powerful ability to reason by we have this image of Edison As the Lone said that not the Case at one of his real talents and insights was that he saw he could accomplish so much More by working with a Hes really a Pioneer of team that probably one of the most important things he Edison set up laboratories first in then Menlo and finally in West at Edison would have More than 100 workers and there Are More than lab notebooks at the Edison National historic according to More than half of those were filled by Edison this does not diminish Edison at said theres no doubt about his genuine even those around him with enormous technical Edu cation m mathematics and science had great admiration for Bis Skilla and Jenkins but at the same time he bad Many hands and Many minds that he was working that gave him an Adan that has to have been a major Factor in his enor Mous it was Edison himself who characterized his Laboratory As an invention