July 26, 2011
This is one of my favorite posts so far--the description of Edison dressed as a quintessential nerd... I love it!
Baci,
Cristina
E aiutato da un numero grande di assistenti e qualunque cosa gli salti in mente di costruire lo puo fare sensza difficolta. Edison e un bell’uomo alto e tarchiato dalla faccia napoleonica. E gentile, ma piuttosto sordo, e d’altra parte non essendo il prof. Ferraris capace pel momento ne di intendere ne di spiegarsi molto in inglese, la conversazione non fu molto animata. Era vestito da laboratorio con una lunga blouse blu tutta bucata e sporca e certamente era piu poveramente vestito di tutti i suoi operai.
He is helped by a huge number of assistants and whatever pops into his head to build, he can make it, no problem. Edison is a handsome man, stocky with a [french/napolean?] face. He’s friendly, but more or less deaf, and the other problem is that since Prof Ferraris can’t understand or explain much in English, the conversation was not too lively. He [Edison] was dressed in lab clothes with a long blue shirt [lab coat?], all holey and dirty, and certainly the most pitiful clothes of all of his workers
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