I believe most people have heard the story of Edison saving his mother when they were children. Edison, who was only 7 years old at the time, used the reflective principle of mirrors to help doctors with lighting, and successfully helped his mother survive acute appendix surgery. This story is really touching and I want to believe it is true. However, if you examine it carefully, you will find that this is just an ideal story and is completely inconsistent with the facts. According to records, the earliest appendix surgery in history was in 1886. At that time, our respected Edison was already 40 years old. So why did he rush to save his mother at the age of 7? Moreover, Edison had already invented the electric light at the age of 32, so why not use electric lights? Instead, use a mirror to reflect the light? If it's true, isn't it a bit scary that Edison treated his own mother like this? I can only say that this is a well-intentioned little story, trying to convey correct values ????through Edison.
However, what Edison did was not what we imagined. He himself did not set a good example for us. We are also familiar with the saying "Success equals 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration." But whether he ever said this, we still don’t know. What's more, it has recently become popular to add the phrase "more important is the 1% inspiration" at the end. In my opinion, a large part of his success is due to some of his despised methods.
For example, Edison invented the electric light mentioned above. Through continuous efforts and trying more than 1,000 materials, he invented the electric light. This is actually an incorrect statement. During that period, there was something called an "electric candle," but the light was too bright and was unbearable to the eyes. Later, someone tried to use filament thermoluminescence. At the beginning, the filament life was too short and the effect was not good. Edison was already a thorough businessman at that time, with his own company and his own employees. He experimented with thousands of materials in Edison's laboratory, and later determined that carbonized bamboo silk could be used as a material and could emit light. Hundreds of hours. This was the birth of the electric light at that time. Two points can be seen from this. First, of course it was not Edison himself who did the experiments, but the invention patent fell on Edison himself. Second: Edison's contribution was not the invention of the electric light, but an improvement. Of course, this improvement is very important. Later came tungsten wire, inert gas, etc.
As for Edison being spurned and seeking fame, this must be related to Tesla. He frantically slandered the great inventor Tesla and used some means to delete Tesla's name from American textbooks.
Through a series of means, Edison obtained the invention patent for DC electricity, founded the DC Electric Energy Company, monopolized the market, and sold electricity at high prices. Business is doing extremely well, and the entire United States and even Europe are within the reach of his company. There is a Achilles’ heel of its DC power supply, which is that a generator set must be installed every one kilometer, so ordinary people cannot afford electricity at all. Tesla invented alternating current, which solved the problem of long-distance electricity consumption. It was this invention that affected Edison's business empire and made Edison furious. Every time Tesla demonstrated, Edison would send people to cause trouble and spread rumors that alternating current would kill people. As a result, alternating current was not promoted for a long time. In order to let citizens see the horrors of alternating current, stray animals were caught on the street and electrocuted cruelly to death. The citizens were so frightened that they did not dare to use AC power at all. Until later, Edison bribed officials to electrocute prisoners with alternating current, causing the prisoners to die in horror. And all he did was to prevent his business empire from being destroyed. A few years later, Tesla turned on alternating current with his hands under the spotlight, allowing electricity to pass directly through his body, telling people that electricity could be controlled, and people gradually accepted it. /e7cd7b899e510fb3b587635fd233c895d0430c5f?x-bce-process=image/resize,m_lfit,w_450,h_600,limit_1/quality,q_85
Of course, this is just one thing Edison did, there are many other opportunistic tricks, Modify someone else's invention and then declare your own patent. You can check it out.