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John Brennick's avatar

Great post! And it’s a myth that once you invent something it is almost automatically useful and available to everyone.

Invention is only the first step. By far the majority of the work is implementing, developing, testing, commercializing, manufacturing, distributing.

Edison didn’t invent the light bulb. However he deserves 98% of the credit for making it practical and useful to humanity.

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Pascal Finette's avatar

Absolutely! Also, as I am just reading the excellent book “Lights Out” about the rise and fall of GE, Edison was only tangentially involved in GE…

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