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Thomas Edison, Tinkerer

2 pointsby jksk61almost 2 years ago

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Nomentatusalmost 2 years ago
Terrific. Maybe not the most alluring framing.<p>Could be titled &quot;Hate Elon? OMFG would you have hated Edison! He was way worse!&quot;<p>Scientists didn&#x27;t start getting in the way of progress yesterday. It&#x27;s a tradition:<p>When the dynamo prototype was finished, it operated so contrary to existing best-practice that Edison was mocked for it. John Tyndall — the physicist to whom discovery of the greenhouse effect is often attributed – wrote in the Journal of Gas Lighting, ‘It is difficult to adequately express the ludicrous inefficiency of the arrangement; but one thing is abundantly certain, and that is that the person who seriously proposed it was wholly destitute of a scientific knowledge of either electricity or the science of energy.’