famousringo said:
Not so amazing when you think about it. It makes perfect sense for people to have more respect for a practical, effective idea that actually impacts their life than they have for an undeveloped, ineffective, and poorly-supported idea that they didn't even know existed. Not that invention isn't an important first step, but it's only the first step in a much larger process. Without the rest of the process, an invention is worth almost nothing. Edison was a good inventor, but where he really excelled was in refining and developing inventions into practical commercial products, which is the point where you actually start improving people's lives. |
but is it the same to respect someone as it is to give them credit for making it? who created the spreadsheet program? most people don't know and don't even care yet he make something that that impacts most people lives. So there is also the aspect of what people are taught and how much a person continues to do afterword. If Edison had only made the light bulb big and nothing more people wouldn't know him, but since he founded GE it did help him get the recognition. On the reverse sometimes it's the creators we remember an not those who made things big or practical. Ray Kroc is the one who made McDonalds big but people would think the McDolalds brothers if they even think of it at all.
