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Re:Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat by throwawaykf05 on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:56AM (#10438942)
Edison gets a lot of flack for some things he did (especially in the context of Tesla) but he certainly was a great inventor. Many of his inventions did come from working with the people he employed, but they were nowhere near "enslaved". No more than employees at Google or Facebook are.

Furthermore, a lot of the accusations levied against him are just outright false. For instance, the "electrocution of an elephant":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_%28elephant%29

Edit - more about Edison: http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2013/02/oatmeal_comic_...

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Re:Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat by vlehto on Friday October 23, 2015 @11:24AM (#10439160)
It was joke, but thanks for the correction. I'd like to point out that leading scientists to make big bunch of inventions would be great feat in it's own right. Leadership alone is diffucult, scientists don't accept just anybody as their superior and you need expert level hunch about technology too.
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