Edison 100 Quotes

Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Edison is a great example of someone who used deliberate and cognitive creativity.

color rendering index (CRI) of a bulb. Incandescent bulbs have a rating of 100, a fact that fuels demand for them even though they have been banned by many countries. But newer LED bulbs have recently been developed that give off light as warm and vibrant as those old Edison bulbs. Choosing bulbs with a CRI close to 100 will keep you and your spaces looking bright and colorful.

Here is an interesting tale for you to consider, and this is a 100% true story.  There once was a genius named Nikola Tesla, who was a fierce competitor of Thomas Edison’s in the late 1800’s/early 1900’s.

Every generation has its fraudsters like Edison, Every generation has trashy maniacs like Columbus. Every generation has war-merchants like Kissinger, Every generation has its churchillian doofus.

By setting up the first distribution company that carried electrical power into private homes, Edison laid the groundwork for the development of an enormous industry. It is, after all, not only the electric light which uses this power source today, but the whole array of home electrical appliances, from the TV set to the washing machine.

The versatile inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847, in the town of Milan, Ohio. He had only three months of formal education, and his schoolmaster considered him to be retarded! Edison

35 THOMAS EDISON 1847-1931

1876, Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the first successful telephone) attempted to sell his patent for the device to Western Union for $100,000. They rejected the offer, claiming the telephone simply “wasn’t capable of transmitting recognizable speech over several miles.” In 1880, the Stevens Institute of Technology publically proclaimed that Thomas Edison’s light bulb would never work. In 1901, Wilbur Wright thought it would be fifty years before we could make airplanes that would fly. It was only two years later in 1903 that he and his brother, Orville, had their first successful flight.

The bite-size and broken-grid elements of nearly every printed page owe themselves to the Macintosh. The plasticity of pictures, of video, and the ease and economy with which the visual world can be manipulated. . . . is a Mac by-product. The transformation (or death, depending on your point of view) of the music business is Steve [Jobs] and the iPod, [which] will soon devour moving images. . . And this not to even mention the personal computer itself . . . Everywhere, Jobs has been helping media consumers take media away from the media business itself. . . It's the technology, stupid. It's the experience, stupid. It's the box that gets us off and makes us what we are. We're not watching media, we're inhabiting it. [Steve Jobs is] not just McLuhan in the media business, he's Edison—the autodidact garage inventor. And, too, he's Henry Ford. . . . Happy 30th anniversary, Apple.” Michael Wolff, “iPod, Therefore I Am,” April 2006 IT