In reply to:
http://gizmodo.com/5884270/celebrate-thomas-edisons-165th-birthday-with-a-cr
ash-course-on-his-life
Folks,
The history revisionists deserve a counter attach of facts. Andrew
Liszewski and his ilk should be required to obtain an education by
performing their own research. It is too easy for unengaged historic
revisionists to feed upon their own internet web surfing culture of
non-effort. Everyone knows Thomas Edison was not a perfect human being. He
had a boat load of faults. What Thomas Edison did have was a vision and the
drive to create the modern world we live in. He did that through a research
and development factory powered by 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Mr. Liszewski would have you think that Steve Jobs was an inventor - nothing
could be further from the truth. I'll admit that Jobs and Edison had
several things in common, both were great marketers and salesmen. Where
Jobs gained financial riches though the Apple II computer (created by his
partner) by virtue of a spreadsheet program he had no hand in developing,
and enjoyed recent success in producing electronic entertainment platforms
by adopting applications of other people's creations, Job's couldn't invent
worth a darn. Have our lives changed for the better because of the iPhone?
Weren't there Cell phones, PDA's and Rio MP3 players before the iPhone? Was
it such a masterful jump forward in the evolution of mankind to combine the
three platforms?
Edison was the right man at the right time in history. A "Workable
and Usable" electric light bulb is just one of a thousand creations.
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville discovered a way of tracing the human
voice onto a piece of paper coated with lamp black, but it took Thomas
Edison to create an industry of Phonographs to play back a voice in
everyone's home. We credit Lee de Forest as the inventor of the Audion, the
first successful vacuum tube amplifier, yet this invention was based upon
the Edison effect discovered by the Edison Labs. Edison has had a profound
influence upon our world and still does. To deny it is to deny truth
itself.
Celebrate Edison's Birthday by reading his birthday special edition
of In The Groove.
Tim McCormick, President
Michigan Antique Phonograph Society
International Antique Phonograph Society
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-----Original Message-----
From: phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Fraser
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 3:13 PM
To: Antique Phonograph List
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Edison's Birthday!
Suggestion:
Why don't we all use the comments function to try to straighten this poor
misinformed guy out?
http://gizmodo.com/5884270/celebrate-thomas-edisons-165th-birthday-with-a-cr
ash-course-on-his-life
-- peter
pjfra...@mac.com
On Feb 11, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Jim Nichol wrote:
> What is everyone doing for Edison's birthday? (Feb. 11, 1847)
>
> Jim Nichol
>
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-- Peter
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