Forget About the Mythical Lone Inventor in the Garage

Edison succeeded in burnishing his public image as a lonely genius. After his death in 1931, the New York Times mourned: "No figure so completely satisfied the popular conception of what an inventor should be. Here was a solitary genius revolutionizing the world?a genius that conquered conservatism, garlanded cities in light, and created wonders that transcended the predictions of Utopian poets. ... With him passes perhaps the last of the heroic inventors and the greatest of the line. The future probably belongs to the corporation research laboratory, with trained engineers directed by a scientific captain." But away from the reporters and the newsreel cameras, Edison was in fact that scientific captain, the executive director of a big, world-class laboratory.

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