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[supersuds]

The Woodward light bulb had a thick carbon filament.  As I said, many people experimented with light bulbs before Edison; he's the one who made it and the system practical.

 

Arbilab, every inventor builds on every other inventor. I think this is an interesting subject, but I'm not really into taking extreme positions for effect, and in view of your statement that that that is what you're doing, I'll let the matter rest there.

http://home.frognet.net/~ejcov/evans.html

 

[arbilab]

I simply believe that Nikola Tesla was the true genius of the era, and it pisses me off that everyone knows Edison (thinks they do) but scarcely anyone knows Tesla. I am not a scholar of either, layman at best, so I can't give you statistics to make the point more tangible.

 

[kenwashesmonday]

Tesla also had some hairbrained ideas that do not work. As he got older he became downright looney.

Edison is a hero because he was self taught. He was a real "working man's inventor". He was very clever, but he certainly was not highly educated. The products his factory put out were very well built, often overbuilt.

Ken D.

 

[toggleswitch]

I'd say the reason Edison is so revered is that he was a really bad student(think Aspergers, dyslexia, ADHD, etc.) However his mind was sharp and he did not think in a linear pattern.

His genius overshadowed his other "disabilities"

He was probably one of those people was was quite a bit "OFF" , but as well all know that tends to flow with "genius".

 

[arbilab]

Edison had the Electric Pencil (even Popiel couldn't have sold it) and a talking doll which was much too fragile for a child's toy.

Tesla went to Howard Hughes Land. The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future. Even so, FBI/DOD felt compelled to confiscate all his memoirs upon his death, without due process.