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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 presid...@maps-itg.org www.MAPS-ITG.org www.IAPS-ITG.org Visit us on FaceBook -----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 > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org -- Peter pjfra...@me.com -- Peter pjfra...@me.com _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org