> The best inventions are the ones that nobody ever thought to ask for. If > Edison had done marketing studies, he would have spent his life designing > incremental improvements to gas lights. Nobody asked him to invent the > electric light.
First let me say that what I'm about to write is completely nit picking, but this something i feel i have to do. :) Edison did not invent the electric light, Humphrey Davy was credited in the early 1800's for the electric arc light so obviously Edison has simply improved the electric light. I believe a more accurate statement in this regard would be something such as "Edison created a longer lasting electric light". Even this is subject to debate as there were at least five others between Davy and Edison who attempted to build a longer lasting light. All of the work of these men were published in the scientific journals and i suspect that Edison was well aware of the previous work. The reason i mention this is because i believe that science and engineering are of the same phenomena, and this phenomena is sitting on the shoulders of many great men. Science / engineer is just like an electron, one way it is particle, and another it is wave. Of if you're a quantum type of person, it exists because you are there to observe it. Steve _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.