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Though we tend to give Thomas Alva Edison the credit for having invented the lightbulb (he did not), he did devise something just as remarkable—the parallel circuit,
Gretchen Bakke • The Grid
Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two. They were directly linked.
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
the Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi invented an even more powerful form of telecommunication, which made the need for secure encryption even more pressing.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
David Szondy • Curta calculator: The mechanical marvel born in a Nazi death camp
Albert Einstein • Albert Einstein
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Einstein invented everything he was ever going to invent by the age of 25. The rest of his life was spent in a futile chase to find a force he couldn’t find called the Fifth Force—the unifying force.