Edison
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1. Edison - Noun
2. Edison - Proper noun
Meaning
United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)
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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round; They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.