The lightbulb moment of not stopping at idea number one
Eskom’s André de Ruyter may be just the visionary we need to renew the thinking about energy in SA
16 December 2020 - 07:00
Thomas Edison was a visionary inventor who thought years ahead of his time. During 1878 and 1880 he and his team of researchers tested more than3,000 designs for the light bulb. In 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament and changed the way we see at night forever.
He managed to wield the power of electricity into an object that can fit into the palm of an adult’s hand. The same power that can slice a tree in two during an electrical thunderstorm was tamed and used for the benefit of mankind...
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