“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy.
What a source of power!
I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal
run out before we tackle that.” — Thomas Edison (1931)
I am not certain of the provenance of this quotation, but a comment on a snopes forum suggests it was quoted on page 31 of “Uncommon friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Thomas Firestone, Alex Carrel and Charles Lindburgh.”
The original Thomas Edison Photo (found on on Wikipedia) was taken in Mathew Brady’s Washington, DC studio in April 1878 is now well in the Public Domain, so this is too.
This isn’t my first attempt at colourization, but it’s certainly the most successful.
The background photo is my own. [full size image on Flickr]