Thanks Kaslin, and thanks Rush.
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Posted on 10/06/2011 2:50:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
Yes there was. Edison didn't invent it. He was a hard-as-nails bsuinessman who stole a lot of his most profitable ideas from undercapitalized innovators who didn't have the deep pockets to chase him through the courts.
Maybe someone would have eventually did the genius work Jobs did. But we would not even be communicating on our puters without him.
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Steve did good. We will miss him.
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Well done, Mr. Jobs.
showing the rest of us how to set the bar...
well done, sir. well done.
I worked for a man much like Steve Jobs. His name was Howard Vollum, founder of Tektronix in Oregon. This man walked the floors at Tek and talked with his employees. When he passed away, the company had around 22,000 employees. The main campus was on about 250 acres. Howard was CEO of Tek but didn’t even have an office. Nobody had an office, just cubicles. After passing away, the good ole boys took over the company. They now have about 5,000 employees and the main campus is less than half the 250 acres, most of it sold off. I hope that Apple continues Steve Jobs dream.
Sounds like Rush has been doctor shopping for fanboi pills.
Rush’s show ends at 2:00pm central. The report did not come out until several hours later. So how could he?
What a dumb post. *rme*
Admittedly, the years right around 1880 were simply the era in which the incandescent light bulb was going to be invented, no matter what.
But Edison, uniquely, put together a crucial few insights that nobody else had at the time. He used them to create a uniquely complete system, from the power plant to the end user. It was this, as well as his manifest talents at (self-) promotion that catapulted him to the front of the pack of electrical entrepreneurs.
[I could go into sickening detail on the technical aspects, but I’d bore most of us to death—including, probably myself.]
I should also add that like so many other pioneers, he was blind to potential revolutionary improvements to his original system, which eventually left his technology lagging behind the state of the art.
To cite the case of the Wright Brothers, it was ailerons, and the tail-&-elevator-in-the-back design that put innovators such as Curtis, Bleriot, and Fokker ahead of them.
In the case of Edison, it was his stubborn adherence to DC that allowed folks like Westinghouse to pass him by.
(Westinghouse’s agent found a system devised by Hungarians, based on a key invention by a Frenchman. Westinghouse saw the future. He harnessed the talents of a Serbian immigrant to improve that system, and in so doing brought AC electricity to America.)
After Edison was no longer in control of his operating companies, the people then running them soon adopted AC technology, first as an adjunct to DC, and then as its replacement.
[My Father showed me a DC outlet in his business suite in a downtown office building. The building owners had an AC-DC converter (a motor-generator) in the basement, to satisfy the needs of business tenants after the city-wide switch from DC to AC around the time the building was constructed. I’m not sure they were running it any more by the time I saw it.]
Probably not true, but Steve did push the envelopes, and we owe him a debt of gratitude.
Jobs was one a very few Americans who were doing something of consequence.
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