Year of Inventors part1

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If we make a list of the greatest inventors in the history of mankind, we will be surprised to find that almost all of them were born in the years of the Goat. This powerful phenomenon is explained by the combination in the Goat of two seemingly opposite qualities - pioneering (Goat, Boar, Rooster) and realism (Goat, Cat, Boar). Pioneership rewards the sign with a thirst for discovery, pushes him to the incessant search for new ideas. Realism as a type of thinking is the best expert for testing the viability of an idea. Thus, the Goat does not do anything unique - it just brings everything to mind, to a working state, that which has long been dreamed of by mankind. In short, the same bike. But really riding, reliable, powerful, shiny, the best bike on Earth. Thomas Alva Edison. Born February 11, 1847. Actually, no one disputes his superiority in the world of inventors. Edison improved Bell's telephone, invented an incandescent lamp and a phonograph, which he himself improved in 1889, developed a lighting system, designed a cartridge and a threaded base, a fuse, an electric meter, a rotary switch, a recorder, a megaphone, etc. He put into practice the parallel switching on of lamps , built heavy-duty power generators in those days and put into operation in 1881 the first thermal power plant with an extensive power supply network. He invented the railway brake, alkali-nickel batteries, a telephone recorder, and a cinematographic camera. The first observed the phenomenon of thermionic emission (Edison effect) and much more. Patented over 1000 inventions.

Edison turned out to be an extremely successful businessman, but not because of his commercial talent, but only because all his inventions were implemented very quickly and powerfully. “I was a bad manufacturer,” he recalled, “because I could not leave a single thing alone, even if it was already good enough. of everything, I thought about how to improve it. As soon as I finished working on some apparatus, I already tried to take it apart again in order to redo something else. Such a mania costs a manufacturer dearly!
credit Gregory Kvasha