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Einstein's Alcove
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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 184485" data-attributes="member: 175235"><p>I can't say I'd class people like Thomas Edison, or John Logie Baird as the greatest inventor. Not that I don't like what they invented, but had they not come alone someone else would have come up with the idea, or at least something similar. One way or another we would have electric lights by now without Edison. </p><p></p><p>Not that I can thing of a better suggestion right now. For me it would have to be the inventor of something truly remarkable, that is not simply logical progression from the available technology, and either very ahead of its time or unlikely to ever be invented by anyone else.</p><p></p><p>The discovery/invention distinction is a very interesting one...did we discover or invent mathematics? Numbers?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 184485, member: 175235"] I can't say I'd class people like Thomas Edison, or John Logie Baird as the greatest inventor. Not that I don't like what they invented, but had they not come alone someone else would have come up with the idea, or at least something similar. One way or another we would have electric lights by now without Edison. Not that I can thing of a better suggestion right now. For me it would have to be the inventor of something truly remarkable, that is not simply logical progression from the available technology, and either very ahead of its time or unlikely to ever be invented by anyone else. The discovery/invention distinction is a very interesting one...did we discover or invent mathematics? Numbers? [/QUOTE]
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