He sees the light at Pope, Edison & Co. at 78-80 Broadway, New York. It includes Thomas Alva Edison and his partners Franklin L. Pope and James Ashley. Every morning, Edison, in New Jersey, gets up at 6:00 a.m. to catch the train, works the usual 18 hours a day, and finally waits for the local train at 1:00 a.m. that takes him back to Elizabeth, New Jersey. He protects himself from the winter cold with multiple layers of underwear, as for the darkness of waiting for the train: one day he would invent something…
