As a poor child, Edison once lived a life of wandering around without enough food. I used to be heavily in debt because of the bottleneck of invention. So many people say that Edison loved money very much and did whatever it took to get it. But then again, who doesn't love money? Edison's shameless behavior, if put today, is simply a good man. What did Edison do? Will they be called liars and profiteers by future generations?
Without Edison, there would be no today.
The so-called inventions are original and based on previous inventions or ideas.
For example, a bicycle, when it was first invented, had only two wheels, no chain and pedals, and its feet kept pedaling.
So, up to now, European countries are still debating who invented the bicycle.
Edison's invention also has many such loopholes, which were absorbed by predecessors, or directly exploited the loopholes that others registered before applying for a patent.
Electric light, telephone, phonograph, telegraph, printing machine, film, flame thrower, heavy machine gun, direct current, torpedo equipment, modern high-density mechanized workshop, etc. , are the extremes that Edison pushed first.
But many things in it were not invented by Edison first, but he was recognized as the first inventor in the world. Some of them are real liars, but many of them were perfected by Edison.
For example, the light bulb was not invented by Edison first. But today, the light bulb we use is still Edison's perfect work.
There are batteries and direct current. Can you say Franklin is an inventor?
There are four other great inventions, if they remain superficial, even after two thousand years, they are only in a backward and semi-primitive state.
Edison's life history
Edison was born in 1847, and the famous Opium War took place in China in 1840.
While our social elites were studying the Four Books and Five Classics, worshiping Confucius and trying for fame, Edison, who was still in primary school, was kicked out of the campus because he liked to ask some "strange" questions. The reason is that this guy asked 1+ 1 why not =4? But =2? The school thinks he is an imbecile.
By the same token, many people in China believe that the history, philosophy and technology of westerners before the Renaissance originated in China. They are idiots except for making fakes.
And we not only have a continuous historical heritage of 5,000 years, but also have human wisdom that westerners can never understand, such as Confucius, Mencius, Zhouyi, Bagua, Tao Te Ching and Neo-Confucianism.
And technology is destined to accelerate the destruction of mankind. Atomic bombs are all evil springs from the west.
Westerners before the Renaissance were barbarians, and westerners after the Renaissance were profiteers and robbers like Edison, so they were doomed to decline.
Not all the people who say these things are idiots, but many of them are serious.
They never look for reasons from themselves, but like to put all the responsibility for their abuse on the perpetrators.
They don't understand that the reason why we are really backward is "feudal rule" and "Confucian classics", and it is the saddest thing to be proud of boasting and arrogance.
Edison lived in a country with a short history of 200 years. Why are there high-tech talents like Edison, Tesla, Einstein, Yang Zhenning, Li Zhengdao and Wu Jianxiong? Has it affected others to dominate the world?
It is foolish for cowards and fools to use moral condemnation at the national level instead of adding fists and feet.
Whether it is the "current" dispute between Edison and Tesla, whether Edison hired a team of scientists to extract the fruits of other people's labor, or he stole other people's inventions, Edison made great contributions to mankind, which is an indelible fact for anyone.
In addition, what the author wants to say is that in country M, where intellectual property rights are so standardized, people like Edison actually exploited the loophole. If Edison lived in a country with no intellectual property protection and all leaders as the center, how much wealth and fame could his more than 2,000 inventions gain for himself?
If Edison lived in the Qing Dynasty of 1847, what would happen to a poor man like him? Similarly, if Edison lived in other countries in 1964, what was his fate?
Technology also needs environment to brew.
Tell you an interesting set of data.
First, who invented the compass but didn't know about magnetism and geomagnetism? Who invented gunpowder but didn't know the oxidation reaction? Who invented papermaking but didn't know about fiber?
Secondly, there are almost none of the 838 inventions that have influenced the world in the past 500 years, including the mobile phone you are holding at the moment and all the materials used in the mobile phone: glass, metal, semiconductor, plastic and so on. All of them were invented by a certain country, but unfortunately this situation has continued (overseas Chinese who go abroad can actually, why? );
Third, investigate the reasons. Although everything can point to the philosophical and cultural system formed by Confucius and Mencius to evaluate "people" and achieve "governing the people", this philosophical and cultural system is not simply caused by Confucius and Mencius.
Tao Te Ching, for example, is essentially the idea of "being born", which is not conducive to the development of natural science. Although Confucius and Mencius belong to WTO, they mainly focus on "governing the people" and "destroying the people and preserving justice"