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The light bulb is a good example. Edison is credited by many, but in
looking at the issue in more detail, you will find that he bought a patent from a Canadian inventor, who had the essential idea, and was perhaps 90 percent of the way to a practical product. Edison then perfected the filament and gas in the container. So who was the inventor? "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants." (Isaac Newton in a letter to Robert Hooke, 1676) Stefan |
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