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a patent is a record of the working device, not the process used to get to it. thinking of anyone as a supernatural genius is nonsense. most of the time.
by gcb 15y ago
a patent is a record of the working device, not the process used to get to it.
thinking of anyone as a supernatural genius is nonsense. most of the time.
- jacquesm 15y agoIn the case of Da Vinci, Einstein, Tesla and a select number of others I think that thinking of them that way is well justified. The general idea is that if the time is ripe for an idea then someone somewhere will have it, and if that someone would not exist someone else will have the idea a short while after. But for the men mentioned above I highly doubt that would be the case, they were both way ahead of the curve at the time.