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I will give Edison that, he had ideas, BUT he also had money so he could just assign or tell a group of his employees to figure out how to do it. Then of course when they did, he would get the patent and claim it as his own. That is how he and Tesla had a parting of ways, he told Tesla that he would give him a big bonus to increase the efficiency of the dynamos by x %. Tesla did, but Edison wouldn't pay him because he was "just" an employee doing his job. And we all know the rest of the story of how Tesla went out and invented the 20th century.
I wish I had a few hundred people I could just tell to implement my ideas. Had a really good one the other day.... and now I've forgotten what it was already.
Many companies have employees sign an agreement to the effect that, should they come up with something patentable, the patent will be taken in the employee's name, assigned to the company. The company may or may not pay any royalties on the invention. They may simply note the invention on the employee's review/evaluation, which may or may not help when the next round of layoffs occur!
French General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division and Charles de Gaulle parade down the Champs-Élysées in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation
I wish I had a few hundred people I could just tell to implement my ideas. Had a really good one the other day.... and now I've forgotten what it was already.
British sailor Francis Chichester begins the first solo sail around the world, leaving Plymouth aboard the Gipsy Moth IV and completing it in May 1967.
1914
The Battle of Heligoland Bight, the first major naval battle of World War 1, was fought. The Germans lost four ships and 1,000 sailors. British casualties numbered 33.
The first American-built locomotive, "Tom Thumb," races a horse drawn car from the Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills; due to mechanical problems, the horse wins!
Hurricane Katrina makes its second and third landfalls as a Category 3 hurricane, devastating much of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 people and causing over $115 billion in damage
1980
Polish labour activist Lech Wałęsa and Mieczysław Jagielski, Poland's first deputy premier, signed an agreement that conceded to workers the right to organize freely and independently.
1939
At dawn on 1st September, Germany made a massive invasion of Poland and bombed Warsaw at 6am, beginning World War II in Europe.
Russia attacked from the east, 'to defend their border'.
1783 The Treaty of Paris is signed in Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America
1939 World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after the invasion of Poland; France follows six hours later, quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada
