10.5. Lesson 94: Create by Analogy
By dictionary definition, a prodigy is someone with exceptional talents or powers. The adjectival form of the word—prodigious—describes something enormous, something great in size, force, or extent. With 1,093 patents to his name, Thomas Edison was nothing if not a prodigious prodigy. It is not just the sheer volume of Edison's creativity that is so daunting, it is also its range. Electric lighting, electric power, the phonograph, motion pictures, improvements to the telegraph and telephone, pioneering work in the domestic cultivation of rubber, in the creation of plastics, in the production of an improved artificial cement—the list goes on and on in a multitude of fields, many seemingly unrelated.
Edison himself ...
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