Thomas Edison switched on the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan on 4th September 1882. This is considered by many as the day the electrical age began.
However was it all his work. The patents certainly were. What made him a success was that he was not a lone inventor, but rather the assembler of the first research and development team at Menlo Park in New Jersey. He borrowed from the work of others and shamelessly promoted them as his own.
However was it all his work. The patents certainly were. What made him a success was that he was not a lone inventor, but rather the assembler of the first research and development team at Menlo Park in New Jersey. He borrowed from the work of others and shamelessly promoted them as his own.
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