Thomas A. Edison
General Powell
Bunt Cavatt
Mary Stilwell
Mr. Taggart
Ben Els
Michael Simon
Ashton
Lundstrom
Edwin Hall
'Acid' Graham
Bigelow
Jimmy Price
Mr. Johnson
Snade
Sheriff
Toastmaster
John Schofield
Nancy Grey
First Lecturer
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.