4.7. Lesson 31: Build on the Weakest Points
Like most everyone else in his world, Thomas Edison was deeply impressed by what Alexander Graham Bell had achieved in 1876 with the telephone. This said, he was not overawed by the invention. A telephone had been invented, but the telephone had yet to be perfected. Instead of discouraging Edison from entering this field, Bell's breakthrough prompted him to begin his own experiments with what was widely called at the time the "talking telegraph." The fact was that Edison, this great inventor and innovator, a man who looked at the world a little differently from everyone else, had a hard time resisting the impulse to hop on an inviting bandwagon, especially when it was just getting under way.
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