Making a Good Light Bulb

Making a Good Light Bulb

Natalie Brown Natalie Brown

Natalie Brown

Founder and Group CEO of Select Training and Management Consultancy L.L.C. | Executive Coach | Management Trainer | Consultant | Keynote Speaker

发布日期: 2017年2月21日
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Thomas Edison tried two thousand five hundred different materials in the process of searching for a filament for the light bulb.

None worked satisfactorily. So his young assistant complained, “So much work for nothing. We have not learnt anything so far.” Edison replied with confidence,

“Really? Haven’t we learned that there are two thousand five hundred elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb?”

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