Evolution of the Electric Incandescent Lamp (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Franklin Leonard Pope

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330367278 ISBN 13 : 9781330367278

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The outcome of a race of diligence between two independent but equally meritorious inventors, is perhaps as often as otherwise determined by chance or accident. In this respect, it may not inaptly be compared to the result of a horse-race, in which the fortunate winner carries off, not only all the honors, but the purse as well, although his nose may have passed under the wire barely an inch in advance of some of his no less deserving competitors. It is a matter of common observation that when the fullness of time arrives, the discovery or invention for which the world has been waiting is certain to be made. The critical student of affairs perceives, that however wonderful or however unexpected that invention may appear, it is seldom that it is not found to be a necessary sequence of a long series of other discoveries and inventions which have preceded it. Even in those rare cases in which an improvement of indisputable novelty and originality is made known to the industrial world, it is scarcely ever sufficiently perfected in its details to be capable of practical use until it has been worked upon and improved by many hands and many minds. But it hls always been the way of the world to consider every such invention, especially when of a character to appeal to the minds of the masses, or to identify itself closely with the everyday life of the community, as the work of some particular individual, who, as it were by common consent, is regarded as its sole originator and contriver, and upon him, fame, honor and wealth are lavished without stint, in childlike unconsciousness of the universal truth that inventions of this character are not made, but grow; that they are not the fruit of momentary inspiration, but on the contrary, are the inevitable results which from time to time mark the slow but constant progress of scientific and industrial evolution. The hist
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330367278
• ISBN 13: 9781330367278
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 101
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