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1.In your opinion,what are the traits that made thomas alva edison a successful inventor?

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1. A good mind. A keen sense of knowing what was needed, but wasn't available that technology could provide. Very good record keeping, organizational skills and process. And in his own words - 99% perspiration - Hard work.
2. Thomas Edision had a keep business mind. He had borderline insane willpower to, instead of using a bit of book-smarts to determine what specification he needed to improve, relied upon an experiment-laden expensive trial-and-error method. Example 1: If he had used some of the equations known before his time about electricity he could have determined the heat generation of a wire and found it was easily over the oxidation temperature (showing he would need to reduce the oxygen in the jar to reduce the rate the metal burned out). Example 2: With his brilliant business mind he hired some of the smarted people in his field and utilized their patents, as his own of course since they were employed by him. When one of the most brilliant employees of his, Nikolai Tesla, developed alternating current, Edison took a firm ground on his already instituted system of direct current and took to the streets to electrocute many animals, including an elephant, just to make AC power look bad (in truth, DC was just as fatal at the voltages he used). In my opinion, he single-handedly set back electrical knowledge a decade while taking the ideas of many brilliant individuals as his own. A business man true-and-true with little book-smart to back himself up. If his inventions succeeded it was because he had a huge stock of money to back up the experiments he required. Nikolai Tesla is a man worthy of much more time investment than Edision.
3. Two: First, he was very persistent. Second, he had a room full of assistants doing the actual work.