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Thomas Edison didn't invent lightbulb, per se. He improved existing designs to make it usable.
by Ygg2 13y ago
Thomas Edison didn't invent lightbulb, per se. He improved existing designs to make it usable.
- zimpenfish 13y agoHe did a lot of "improving" "existing designs". Although nowadays we call it "being a filthy thieving bastard".
- Ygg2 13y agoBasically he was a more dastardly Steve Jobs.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoNo, just a regular Steve Jobs.
- Ygg2 13y agoI'll be honest, I said dastardly merely because I see Thomas Alva Edison twirling his mustache.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoHe had a mustache? I learn something all the time on HN :) Indeed Alva was a first-class bastard. But that's what it took to be successful in the gilded age I guess.
- Ygg2 13y agoNo, I took some artistic liberties. But he should have :P