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" If he were exhausted he might more likely be asleep in the middle of the day than in the middle of the night, as most of his work in the way of inventions was done at night. I used to run his office... "
Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon - Page 23
by Forrest McDonald - 2004 - 400 pages
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Edison: His Life and Inventions, Volume 1

Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin - Inventors - 1910 - 536 pages
...system of any office. He was just as likely to be at work in his laboratory at midnight as midday. He cared not for the hours of the day or the days of the week. If he was exhausted he might more likely be asleep in the middle of the day than in the middle of the...
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Central-station Electric Service: Its Commercial Development and Economic ...

Samuel Insull - Electric light plants - 1915 - 582 pages
...building of the Sunbury (Pa.) generating station in 1883. work in his laboratory at midnight as midday. He cared not for the hours of the day or the days of the week. If he was exhausted he might more likely be asleep in the middle of the day than in the middle of the...
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From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future ...

Richard Munson - Business & Economics - 2005 - 228 pages
...to his secretary, Edison "was just as likely to be at work in his laboratory at midnight as midday. He cared not for the hours of the day or the days of the week."13 Edison tried almost every imaginable chemical (eg, chromium, molybdenum, boron, silicon, and...
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