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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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9.5. Lesson 83: Start a School

As Edison pushed ahead with the commercialization of his electric lighting system, marketing electrification to industry, communities, and entire cities, he encountered—not surprisingly—a terrible dearth of experienced electrical engineers, electricians, installers, and other workmen to do the necessary building, installing, maintaining, and operating of the components of the system. The wiring of buildings was often undertaken by plumbers, whose vocation was at least roughly analogous to that of the emerging trade of electrician, but Edison well knew that this stop-gap was hardly sufficient to the needs of the vast industry that was rapidly taking shape under his hands. Edison approached Columbia University in ...

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