Thread by @marinamaral2

Thomas Edison's to-do list (circa 1888).

Things doing and to be done:

- Cotton Picker
- New Standard Phonograph
- Hand turning phonograph
- Deaf Apparatus
- Electrical Piano
- Long distance standard Telephone Transmitter which employs devices of recording 'phonogh'

- Artificial Cable
- Magnetic Separator Large
- Locking material for Iron sand
- Artificial Silk
- Good wax for phonograph
- Phonographic Clock
- Large Phonograph for Novels, etc.
- Pig Iron Expmts with Electricity + Magnetism
- Drawing fine wire
- Joy phonograph for Dolls

- Cable Motograph
- Magneto telephone with actual contact end magnet compression of an adjustable rubber press as in new phones
- Snow Compressor
- Glass plate water ore repeator
- Tinned faced [illeg.] for Stove Castings
- Refining Copper Electrically

- 200 volt 20 cp lamp
- Cheap [illeg.] Indicator
- Recording Valt Indicator
- Box balancing System
- Alternating Machine + Transformer
- Sifua Surface Switches
- Vulcanizing [illeg.] African Rubber adullement
- Platinum wire [illeg.] cutting Machine

- Silver wire woodcutting system
- Squirting glass sheet tube etc. Nickel [illeg.]
- Artificial Mother Pearl
- Red Lead pencils equal to graphite
- India Ink
- Tracing Cloth
- Ink for blind
- Fluffy Incandescent Burner for gas
- Regenerative Kerosene Burner

- Centralized arc in arc Lamp
- Cai--[illeg.] Tesla arc lamp test
- Condenser Transformer
- Butter direct from Milk
- Burning asphalt Candles by high chimney
- Telephone Repeater
- Substitute for Hard rubber
- Artificial Ivory
- Soften Vegetable Ivory to press in sheets

- Marine Telegraphy
- Long distance speaking tube filled H20 2 dia pressure
- Two revolving bands in battery Lead faced press in liquid close together + out into separate chambers to [illeg.]reduce by gas the other
- Telephone working more [illeg.]

The list goes on and on. I am feeling so miserable and useless right now