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Edison on Innovation: 102 Lessons in Creativity for Business and Beyond
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Edison on Innovation: 102 Lessons in Creativity for Business and Beyond

by Alan Axelrod
February 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 1m
English
Jossey-Bass
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8.10. Lesson 74: Exploit the Details

Faced with inventing not just an electric light, but the entire electric lighting system of which the light was to be only one part, Edison could be forgiven if he had failed to take note of and address every last detail of what amounted to a massive, complex invention. He could have been forgiven, but he would never have forgiven himself.

Even as he struggled to find a durable filament for his light and a workable design for a generator, Edison pondered the economics of the entire electric lighting system. He reasoned that interior electric lighting would be used primarily at night, which meant that the load—the demand—on any electric generating and distributing system would be substantial at night but comparatively ...

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