Jacob Goldstein
Jacob Goldstein spent more than a decade as co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He's also the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, which the New…
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The man who invented the movie camera got on a train in France in 1890 and was never seen again. The wife of Louis Le Prince thought she knew who’d ordered her husband’s disappearance and presumed murder – Thomas Alva Edison.
Many people were simultaneously racing to develop moving pictures – so had Edison decided to bump off his closest rival so he could win? The story of who deserves the credit for the movies is a murky one – involving bitter betrayal, courtroom drama and soft-core porn.
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Robert Smith
Robert Smith, co-host of the Business History podcast, is a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and contributing host of NPR's Planet Money where he tells stories about how the…
