Thomas Edison is Trash

 We all know of good ol’ Thomas Edison. The genius who invented the lightbulb, supposedly of course. But he was not the only person who was working towards the creation of incandescent lightbulbs. There were two others, Humphrey Davy and Joseph Swank were said to had invented the lightbulb before Edison even lost a legal case to the pairing for the patent for the light bulb. So why do we realize Edison as the father of light? It seems to be nothing more than the power of word of mouth at the time. Edison had money, power and influence. It was most likely no problem for him to overturn the word of a small time group of inventors. They had nothing to combat his massive influence over the community of science and philosophy. And just as those with influence in our time, despite whether legally proven wrong or not they still have such a following that proof and evidence means close to nothing to the masses. Of course it is not as powerful in our time because of how easy it is to find the truth with our technology, but you can still find may people who will discredit truth and legal fact for their love of a person with influence. There are people today who still believe R-Kelly is innocent and he was nothing more than a musician. In the same aspect, imagine how easy it would be for someone as Edison, whos name rings through time to do such a thing. In short he is no different than the wealthy and powerful people in our time, using power and influence to rewrite the truth in his vision.

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