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Almost everything is a collaborative process. Even the papers from Albert Einstein are in the end a collection of many inputs from many people.

• sandworm101 6y ago
  The wrights weren't really collaborative. They operated largely alone. Most of the teams operated alone, but all pulled from developments that were evolving regardless of the aviation drive. Fluid/propeller dynamics was evolving for naval purposes, engines for ground-based transport. Had the wrights not been first, any number of others would have cobbled together these techs into a working aircraft.
• throwaway894345 6y ago
  Agreed. The "collaborative process being attributed to a lone genius" is the rule; the Wright brothers were not exceptional in this regard. We almost always fail to recognize collaboration. I would actually argue that Einstein is the exception to the rule in that, while no doubt he did collaborate especially once he became somewhat established, he did much innovation on problems that no one was even thinking about at various times. Einstein was among the lone geniuses to the extent that there have ever been lone geniuses. See also Ramanujan.
  • qqqwerty 6y ago
    His wife might disagree: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotten-life-of-einsteins-first-wife/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotte...