While the light bulb allows people to keep reading or
studying, most don’t realize the misconception about who invented it, because
it was not Thomas Edison.
Actually, by the time Edison started working on it,
the light bulb had been around for a long time and inventors from across the
world had already drafted various patents on it.
What Edison did was improve on the existing idea by
developing the first practical incandescent lighting system with a team of
inventors and staff. So why do we attribute the device to him? Inventions were
coming out rapidly at that time and he was very good at cultivating
relationships with reporters, besides being a showman. Sometimes he would even
claim to have solved a problem before he really did.
Due to his notoriety and fame, he would naturally be
associated with the light bulb, on top of making it a commercially feasible
product with his own company.
It is important to note two other contributions he
made during this time: Edison must be remembered for managing what would become
known as team-based industrial research and for attracting the interest of
capital investors to fund his work. Edison was indeed very much ahead of his
time. He
just didn’t invent the light bulb.
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