Electric light Quote by Robert J. Gordon

“No invention ever comes into being fully developed in a single step, from nothing. Ten thousand inventions had to be in place before Edison…

— Daniel Quinn

The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found…

— Dave Barry

“Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn’t the first, but he was the first to make something…

— Steven Johnson

“It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.”

— Christopher Bram

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system,…

— Nikola Tesla

The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the only way…

— Charles Koch

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…

— George Carlin

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

— Napoleon Hill

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission…

— Edward Teller

“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the most significant…

— Richard Feynman

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in…

— Steven Johnson

We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in…

— Joe Gebbia