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Show TV12—THE HERALD,Provo. Utah, Monday, December 24, 1979 Special Will Profile ThomasA. Edison later. The life and career of America’s most prolific inventor is explored in a one-hour special, you make onthat inven- “Legacy of Genius: The tion on the experiments Story of Thomas Alva Edison,” Saturday at 7 for the next. Just as shrewd a p.m. on Channel 11. Narbusinessmanasinventor, rated by veteran broadEdison realized early in caster Eric Sevareid, the his career that creating program examines marketable devices and Edison's work andits imThomas Edison had a very practical philosophy about inventing — invent whatsells in quantity, so you can spend the money attracting financial pact on the world and the outlook for tomorrow's inventors, Produced by the South Carolina ETV Network. LEGACY OF GENIUSis madepossible by grants from Amerada Hess Corporation and Hoffmannstill a great individual, La RocheInc., a health and mankind is still care company, with adbenefiting from his ac- ditional funding from the complishments a century Thomas Alva Edison backers would determine the difference between the success or failure of an inventor. Perhaps not as altruistic as past biographers and Hollywood movies have made him, Edison was . Foundation. When he died in 1931, Edison had over 1,000 pa- tents registered in his name, including the phonograph the light bulb and the movie camera. These three alone created major new industries and millions of jobs. The phonograph made Edison famous. Pecple flocked to his lab at MenloPark in 1878 to see him demonstrate his “talking machine.’ A great showman, Edison loved entertaining the crowds by playing discs with sounds of a street brawl recorded on them and having these roar back at the audiences. Talking about his greatest money-making invention, Edisonsaid, ‘I expect it to grow up and be a big feller and support me in my old age.”’ Grow it did and from Edison's original phonograph new methods were developed for recording books, dictating letters and recording music. Ask your local lumber or garden supply dealer living.” THOMAS EDISON,America’s mostprolific inventor, is profiled in a one-hour special, “Legacy of Geaius: The Story of Thomas Alva Edison,” Saturday at 7 p.m. on Channel11. Marital Spats Now You Can Have Your Dream Kitchen At Great Savings By Letting Us Beautify Your Existing Mets! +r Wood Cabinets Professional Installation by Hiyhly Skilled Craftsmen Complete Kitchen Remodeling —: Stylish Countertops Designer Colors or the Warm Look of Beautiful Hardwoods Fast — 310 5 Days — NoCostly Tear-Out “tome 224-2727 Style ArtIndustri = Lead to Jail Marital spats drive both Stanley and the stuffy Jeffrey Brookes to a neighborhood bar, where they suddenly becomebleary-eyed buddies until a comedyoferrors lands them both in jail cell for an uproarious encounter with the law on ‘The Ropers,”” at 7 p.m. on Channel4, In “Twofor the Road,” Anneand Jeffrey Brookes quarrel over his decision to switch their plans for the evening at the last minute and he stormsout. ThenStanley exits from a tiff with Helen over his refusal to give her furniture money. Muchlater at the bar, Jeffrey not only gives Stanley $200 for the furniture, but also promisesto lend him his luxury car. Stanley borrowsit the next morning when Jeffrey has forgotten the promise. The Brookesreport that their car has been stolen to the police. (eas SCORES OF DO-IT-YOURSELF JOBS MADE EASY Two years after he invented the phonograph, Edison developed the device that ushered in the age of electricity — the incandescent light bulb. Just as important as the bulb itself was the electrical system to power it. Edison also devised that and with it he started the electrical equipment industry which today provides thousands of essential products and nearly one out of every five jobs in this country. ‘Not only have Edison's inventions given us jobs,’’ says Charles Pillard, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), “but they have made each job more valuable, enabling workers to achieve a muchhigher standard of |