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Video: Edison's 1899 Trip Across The Brooklyn Bridge

Published Nov 5, 2010

Modified Nov 5, 2010

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Here's some amazing footage of a trip across the Brooklyn Bridge... in 1899. It was filmed by the Edison Manufacturing Co., and copyrighted by Thomas Edison on September 22nd, 1899. The film starts in Brooklyn and ends in Manhattan:

There are plenty more where this came from—check out YouTube for a slew of old videos from Edison & Co. [via Kottke]