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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Graystone who wrote (29568)1/31/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Let me in here. Fortunately for Edison and Franklin there was not so much out there worth learning. There was still room to think up things that had not yet been invented, both gadgets and theories (Edison Effect, bipolar electricity, identity of lightning and static electricity)

Both were self-educated working men, both ended with many honorary doctorates. Both advanced and protected mankind, and made them wealthier than they ever could have been without them. Both were strictly unnecessary. If they had rolled over and gone back to sleep, instead of rising to the work of a man, the would would have caught up, and maybe even identified the electron as having a positive, rather than a negative charge, and used AC rather than DC at the start.
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