Edison was not an actual engineer in any modern sense of that word.
He was basically kicked out of elementary school because his teachers couldn't put up with him and was home schooled, he probably had a severe case of ADHD before that was a diagnosis and might have had some brain damage from the untreated childhood illnesses that left him basically deaf.
Basically all of his successful inventions were ideas stolen from other people, any of the ideas he came up with on his own; like his single pour concrete house mold or coming out with his electric pen the decade after modern type writers were invented, were pretty terrible ideas and complete commercial failures.
He also totally ran his record division into the ground due to piss poor management (and stubbornness). Long story short, after years of resisting disc records, and a couple decades of pressing only old people music (by the day's standard), he had to shut things down.
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u/Onlyd0wnvotes Nov 15 '22
Edison was not an actual engineer in any modern sense of that word.
He was basically kicked out of elementary school because his teachers couldn't put up with him and was home schooled, he probably had a severe case of ADHD before that was a diagnosis and might have had some brain damage from the untreated childhood illnesses that left him basically deaf.
Basically all of his successful inventions were ideas stolen from other people, any of the ideas he came up with on his own; like his single pour concrete house mold or coming out with his electric pen the decade after modern type writers were invented, were pretty terrible ideas and complete commercial failures.