Quote Originally Posted by Arkenputtyknife View Post
Edison deserves top marks and full credit for vision and doing the hard work needed to give us the incandescent electric light (instead of just patenting an undeveloped idea and sitting on it like his predecessors), but he didn't invent the concept.
True, but he made the product, and that's more than the person with the water-bicycle patent ever did. It's eassy to come up with an idea, it's a lot harder to do it.