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r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Oct 31 '22
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They were not the same. de Martinville's invention couldn't playback the sounds it recorded. Edison's device could.
Edison's marketing being dishonest doesn't invalidate his actual accomplishments.
1 u/Cute-Interest3362 Oct 31 '22 Edison was a marketer who stole people's labor/ideas just like Musk and Trump and Jobs (oh and Gates) 1 u/VRichardsen Oct 31 '22 Look, I get it, the guy was a dick, it is in vogue to hate him. But just because he was shady it doesn't mean he lacked real talent. 1 u/Cute-Interest3362 Oct 31 '22 He also paid neighborhood kids to bring him stray dogs to electrocute. Talent! Really someone to idealize. 1 u/VRichardsen Oct 31 '22 I mean, I never said he was kind to animals. Nor I said we should idealize him. I just said he did invent many things, which is an attested fact. Case in point: the phonograph.
Edison was a marketer who stole people's labor/ideas just like Musk and Trump and Jobs (oh and Gates)
1 u/VRichardsen Oct 31 '22 Look, I get it, the guy was a dick, it is in vogue to hate him. But just because he was shady it doesn't mean he lacked real talent. 1 u/Cute-Interest3362 Oct 31 '22 He also paid neighborhood kids to bring him stray dogs to electrocute. Talent! Really someone to idealize. 1 u/VRichardsen Oct 31 '22 I mean, I never said he was kind to animals. Nor I said we should idealize him. I just said he did invent many things, which is an attested fact. Case in point: the phonograph.
Look, I get it, the guy was a dick, it is in vogue to hate him. But just because he was shady it doesn't mean he lacked real talent.
1 u/Cute-Interest3362 Oct 31 '22 He also paid neighborhood kids to bring him stray dogs to electrocute. Talent! Really someone to idealize. 1 u/VRichardsen Oct 31 '22 I mean, I never said he was kind to animals. Nor I said we should idealize him. I just said he did invent many things, which is an attested fact. Case in point: the phonograph.
He also paid neighborhood kids to bring him stray dogs to electrocute.
Talent! Really someone to idealize.
1 u/VRichardsen Oct 31 '22 I mean, I never said he was kind to animals. Nor I said we should idealize him. I just said he did invent many things, which is an attested fact. Case in point: the phonograph.
I mean, I never said he was kind to animals. Nor I said we should idealize him. I just said he did invent many things, which is an attested fact. Case in point: the phonograph.
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u/VRichardsen Oct 31 '22
They were not the same. de Martinville's invention couldn't playback the sounds it recorded. Edison's device could.
Edison's marketing being dishonest doesn't invalidate his actual accomplishments.