.. title: Edison's TODO list .. slug: edisons-todo-list .. date: 2016-12-16 09:34:07 UTC-08:00 .. tags: .. category: .. link: .. description: .. type: text Looks like Edison used TODO list too. This `article on openculture`_ has a snapshot of his todo list from year 1888. These were his 108 things he wanted todo. 1 - Cotton Picker 2 - New Standard Phonograph 3 - Hand turning phonograph 4 - New Slow speed cheap Dynamo 5 - New Expansion Pyromagnetic Dynamo 6 - Deaf Apparatus 7 - Electrical Piano 8 - Long distance standard Telephone Transmitter which employs devices of recording phonogh 9 - Telephone Coil of Fe [iron] by tt in Parafine or other insulator 10 - Platina Point Trans using new phono Recorder devices 11 - Gred Battery for Telephones 12 - * Long Distance 13 - * Phonoplex 14 - * Jump Telegraph 15 - * Voltmeter 16 - Improved Magnetic Bridge for practical work 17 - Motograph Mirror 18 - * Relay 19 - * Telephone practical 20 - Artificial Cable 21 - Phone motor to work on 100 volt ckts 22 - Duplicating Phono Cylinders 23 - Deposit in vacuo on lace, gold silver also on cotton molten chemical compound of lustrous surfaces to imitate silk also reg plating system 24 - Vacuous Ore milling Large Machine 25 - Magnetic Separator Large 26 - Locking material for Iron sand 27 - Artificial Silk 28 - Artificial filiments [sic] 29 - New [illeg.] 30 - Uninflammable Insulating Material 31 - Good wax for phonograph 32 - Phonographic Clock 33 - Large Phonograph for Novels, etc. 34 - Pig Iron Expmts with Electricity + Magnetism 35 - Malleablizing Cast now in Vacuo 36 - Drawing fine wire 37 - Joy phonograph for Dolls 38 - Cable Motograph 39 - Very Loud Motograph telephone with 1/3 siz phonogh motor. 40 - Magneto telephone with actual contact end magnet compression of an adjustable rubber press as in new phones 41 - Snow Compressor 42 - Glass plate water ore repeator 43 - Tinned faced [illeg.] for Stove Castings 44 - Refining Copper Electrically 45 - Quad neutral relay 46 - Cheap low induct Cop Insulating material for Lead Cable people 47 - Constant moved for nonfoundry 48 - 200 volt 20 cp lamp 49 - Cheap [illeg.] Indicator 50 - Recording Valt Indicator 51 - Box balancing System 52 - Alternating Machine + Transformer 53 - Sifua Surface Switches 54 - Vulcanizing [illeg.] African Rubber adullement 55 - Platinum wire [illeg.] cutting Machine 56 - Silver wire wood cutting system 57 - Silvering or Coppering bathing cloth in Vac for durability 58 - S Mater attend own with new devices for c speed 59 - Expansion mirror platwire in vacuo 60 - Photoghy 61 - Photoghy by camping heat after central points 62 - Boron fil. 63 - Hg [mercury] out of Lamp 64 - Phonaplex Repeater 65 - Squirting glass sheet tube etc. Nickel [illeg.] 66 - Artificial Mother Pearl 67 - Red Lead pencils equal to graphite 68 - India Ink 69 - Tracing Cloth 70 - Ink for blind 71 - Fluffy Incandescent Burner for gas 72 - Regenerative Kerosene Burner 73 - Centralized arc in arc Lamp 74 - Cai-[illeg] Tesla arc lamp test 75 - Strengthening alternating cli by sternt Dynamo 76 - ERR Cont [illeg.] reducers 77 - Electroplating Machines for Schenectady 78 - Condenser Transformer 79 - Sqr ft difraction gratings in silver by 5000 [illeg.] tool special [illeg.] lathe for ornamental purposes 80 - Photo Scant [illeg.] 81 - Cheap plan produce Mimeograph surfaces 82 - Miners battery + lamp 83 - Sorting Coal from Slate Machine 84 - Butter direct from Milk 85 - Burning asphalt Candles by high chimney 86 - Magnets RR signals 87 - Soften [illeg.] of books transfer to Cop plate + plate to [illeg.] matrix 88 - Telephone Repeater 89 - Substitute for Hard rubber 90 - Artificial Ivory 91 - Soften Vegetable Ivory to press in sheets 92 - Various batteries on [illeg.] Type 93 - Revolving Thermo 94 - Caller Indicator for Jump Telegh 95 - Marine Telegraphy 96 - Long distance speaking tube filled H20 2 dia pressure 97 - Lend plate battery for modifying attending Current 98 - Two revolving bands in battery Lead faced press in liquid close together + out into separate chambers to [illeg.]reduce by gas the other 99 - Siren phonogh 100 - Perm mag like an electromag of [illeg.] hand steel high polish separately magnetized + forced together powerfully[illeg.] 101 - Telephone working more [illeg.] 102 - Eartubes formed crescent [illeg.] wire 103 - Long strip 50 cp carbon under stress [illeg.] for 104 - Cheap Voltmeter 105 - Chalk Battery 106 - Dynamo or motor long tube in long magnetic field top bottom contacts forcing water through generator current by passage. 107 - Thermo battery slick Copper oxidized then plated over surface oxide nailed to make good contact [illeg.] 108 - Disk Phonogh .. _article on openculture: http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/thomas-edisons-hugely-ambitious-to-do-list-from-1888.html