Some people are natural idea generators like Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs or Pat Gunkel.
Electricity comes from an ancient power plant built by Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.
What do Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Christopher "Biz" Stone have in common with Thomas Edison?
Thomas Edison remains one of America's heroes, both in business and in popular history.
Would you be better off if Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs had been dim-witted?
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Steve Jobs seemed to be one-part Ben Franklin, one-part Thomas Edison, one-part Henry Ford.
Light bulbs have come a long way since Thomas Edison invented them back in 1879.
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As the story goes, Thomas Edison failed thousands of times while inventing the light bulb.
Think Eli Whitney, Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs individualists and heroes all.
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The real electrical innovation, he argues, wasn't Thomas Edison's idea of installing individual power plants in factories.
And Thomas Edison, in addition to all his other work, was at the forefront of this initiative.
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Even Thomas Edison bet badly, as in his development of direct-current electricity that proved inferior to alternating current.
But Thomas Edison's idea--that power should be distributed as direct current--is being revived.
But in 1877, Thomas Edison invented a new way to preserve the past.
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Kurzweil is an inventor who has been called the successor to Thomas Edison.
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But independent filmmakers and producers started moving west when Thomas Edison, the inventor who owned patents on filmmaking technologies, began imposing fees.
Yes, there's opportunity here for someone with Thomas Edison's creativity and a willingness to work on ... asphalt roof shingles.
After all, no one considers Alexander Graham Bell the inventor of the smartphone or Thomas Edison of the podcast.
Thomas Edison tested more than 6, 000 different materials for just one tiny part of the light bulb that he invented.
His contributions to American business and cultural life are equal to that of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Walt Disney.
Harding and Thomas Edison used to go camping, calling themselves the Vagabonds.
Together, they shared a light bulb moment with the inventor Thomas Edison.
That is why Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were American heroes a century ago, and Steve Jobs was one when he died last year.
No one embodied that myth in the eyes of many more surely than Thomas Edison, the very symbol of the tinkering genius alone (supposedly) in his lab.
Yet for the likes of Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and even Thomas Edison, tertiary education ran secondary to their ambition.
Elon Musk has been called the reincarnation of Thomas Edison.
It is the first time Owen Gareth Williams, Thomas Edison Jones and Emrys Austin Owen have seen the engine in full steam since it was retired.
Similarly, Thomas Edison and his Muckers changed our world with the phonograph when he was just thirty years old, and the incandescent electric light-bulb at thirty-two.
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Thomas Edison is the best example of how discipline is the natural ally of innovation, but only if it makes innovation easier rather than more difficult.
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Thomas Edison made a film of it, and a future movie mogul, William Fox (he was still Nineteenth Century Fox then), hawked pretzels to the crowd.
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