Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
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
“Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.”
• Thomas Edison (1889)
Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.
