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People don't understand just how vast the contributions of Thomas Edison were: * Invented the light bulb * Invented recorded sound * Invents the carbon microphone telephone * Key innovations in developing the power grid * Develops alkaline storage battery * Major innovator in film and motion pictures * Invented the research corporation * Many other "minor" inventions like the underwater microphone, the electric pen, and the mimeograph He also had one of the most interesting lives of all time: * Mark Twain frontier childhood * Has to overcome being mostly deaf from his early childhood (probably due to an explosion he caused from one of his chemistry experiments) * Prankster who loves shocking people with electricity in an age when most people don't even know what electricity is * His entire business burns down at its very height * International celebrity - genuinely one of the most famous people of his day So what made him great? * Genuinely addicted to inventing. Usually fell asleep at his desk. * His lack of education actually helped him. Rather than trying to understand exactly how something worked, he just tinkered until it DID work. * Unbelievable persistence - just never ever gave up on something once he started it * Great showman - loved showing off new inventions * He was comfortable pushing his employees extremely hard * Unbelievably competitive Best Edison quotes: * “Everything on earth depends on will. I never had an idea in my life. I’ve got no imagination. I never dream. My so-called inventions already existed in the environment—I took them out. I’ve created nothing. Nobody does. There’s no such thing as an idea being brain-born; everything comes from the outside. The industrious one coaxes it from the environment; the drone lets it lie there while he goes off to the baseball game. The ‘genius’ hangs around his laboratory day and night. If anything happens he’s there to catch it; if he wasn’t, it might happen just the same, only it would never be his.” * "I am no genius. Unless we accept the theory that genius is prolonged patience. I am patient enough, to be sure." * Tesla quote about Edison "The effect that Edison had on me was rather extraordinary. When I saw this wonderful man, who had no training at all, no advantages, and did it all himself, and saw the great results by virtue of his industry and application, I felt mortified that I had squandered my life."

the best part of 𝕏 is that its the highest average IQ app because the content is written and requires a modicum of reading comprehension thats how you know the average is ~90

Candace is the type of person who’d learn about Hemant Soren and deduce that he’s Soren Kierkegaard who time travelled to 21st century in order to meet Charlie Kirk because they both have K,I,R,K in their names.

On this day in 1995: the first item was purchased on Amazon. It was a book on artificial intelligence.

Why did Nikita Bier delete this post?

Hit me with the craziest Indian history facts you know.

one benefit of being a culturally-rw society is that people support all the space exploration endeavours a country undertakes bc they equate it with the country’s achievements. (e.g. India, China ) west is culturally left and hence it has some real skeptics of space exploration.

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

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