and inventions, and willing to spend his money on them. He invested and lost a fortune on an early prototype of a typesetting machine. His own publishing house foundered after some early success. He ...

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"An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain." — Thomas Edison Born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, Samuel Clemens moved to ...

"An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain." — Thomas Edison Born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, Samuel Clemens moved to ...