On 2/27/2017 7:02 PM, juan wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:49:08 +1000 "James A. Donald" <jam...@echeque.com> wrote:And by this standard of what constitutes an invention,your 'standard' is deranged nonsense.
You could not buy a useful lightbulb until Swan and Edison started manufacturing light bulbs.
In this sense, Swan and Edison invented the lightbulb.Similarly, transistors were not very useful until Shockley invented the junction transistor, and started manufacturing them.
