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Show "The longest time I ever worked continuously," says Thomas Edison, "was five days and five nights without sleep. That was during some of my lighting experiments. Once I worked four days and four nights that was just before the opening of the Pearl street station in New York. We did not know what was going to happen; hap-pen; we expected something would explode when we turned on the current. cur-rent. Everybody said it was going to be a failure. When we turned on the current, however, it started all right, without a hitch, and ran for eight years." Mr. Edison believes that most people sleep too much. Three or four hours are enough if it is good, solid sleep, not dreaming that isn't sleep." |
