February 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 1m
English
Most of us are supremely irritated by distraction. We try to avoid it, and we complain loudly when distraction proves unavoidable. For many of us, a "break in concentration" comes as something of a catastrophe.
But not for Thomas Edison.
The inventor not only invited but sought and welcomed distraction, even when he was most intensely involved in a particular project. For example, during his early intensive experiments with multiple telegraph systems—telegraph systems that would allow multiple messages to be sent and received simultaneously along a single line—Edison freely followed whatever other leads his work on these emerging technologies and devices suggested to him. If he came up with a solution to a ...