
1847–1931 · United States
Thomas Edison
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Their life
The Menlo Park invention factory made innovation industrial: 1,093 patents, the phonograph, practical electric light, and the systems — generation, wiring, metering — that made a bulb matter. He tested thousands of filaments and called none of them failures.
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