Edison once said invention is 99% perspiration & 1% inspiration using exampls from the text notes and personal experiences. Explain what Edison meant???...Please, i need this information by 10:00pm today!
2007-01-31 14:20:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
It means that, unlike you, he put a lot of effort into his work.
2007-01-31 14:34:45 · answer #1 · answered by Bestie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Brilliant ideas without follow through are worthless. An idea comes to you for a wonderful new invention that everyone will want. It fulfills a need, is affordable, and everyone is going to want it. The materials are available in your home but you start watching Monk and crash on the sofa. A year later, you see your invention, YOUR INVENTION, on a late night infomercial and yell--THAT'S MY INVENTION!!!! No, it's not--you may have had an idea but some other soul is going to be rich beyond avarice since he or she did the scut work, worked on the idea to create a prototype, and secured a patent.
"A century ago, Thomas Edison thought deeply about what drives invention or, as we call it today, innovation. One of his famous sayings, “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration,” stresses that innovation involves more than just great ideas. Edison knew from his own experience that the systematic hard work of trial-and-error experimentation paid off. His inventions, like the lightbulb and the phonograph, emerged through thousands of attempts as he refined the process step by step."
2007-01-31 14:40:21 · answer #2 · answered by Liberry-Lady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It basically means that invention is for the most part hardwork and a small part is just getting the idea to do it.
But that really is a horrifically easy answer. Just think about it.
2007-01-31 14:22:58 · answer #3 · answered by Jenn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋