![]() ![]() As a recent Fast Company article notes, “Apple’s engineers spend 100% of their time making products planned by a small club of senior managers-and sometimes entirely by Jobs himself. ) Jehl notes that “When Edison conducted those epoch-making researches which revolutionized the world he had six laboratory assistants who carried out the experiments under his direction and supervision.” His point is that though others were at work in the lab, the ideas were Edison’s alone.Ĭome to think of it, even many of our more recent achievements, like those coming from the companies TIME lists, have been largely shaped by individuals. The September 1924 issue of Electrical World (a then-sister magazine of POWER that began in 1874 and solidly supported Edison until his death in 1931) published a “retrospective glance” by Francis Jehl, an early Edison associate, titled “The Edison of 1879.” (You can download the article from the online version of this story at. A series of articles celebrate Edison’s many inventions and closes with this: “Edison’s laboratories were the forerunners of the interactive technological think tanks of Apple, Google, and Microsoft.” Though the sentiment lauds Edison, I think it’s an overstatement. The cover of the July 5 special History Issue of TIME magazine features Thomas Edison holding a glowing bulb.
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