Was Thomas Edison a Moonshot Inventor?

A great businessman, yes. A great inventor, maybe.

Until his death in 1931, Edison and his researchers were credited with more than 1,000 patents.

However, his most important invention was one that couldn’t be patented: the process of modern invention itself. By applying the principles of mass production to the 19th-century model of the solitary inventor, Edison created a process in which skilled scientists, machinists, designers, and others collaborated at a single facility to research, develop, and manufacture new technologies. From the Menlo Park Museum

There were more than 20 other inventors who created incandescent light bulbs before Edison. But Edison and his army at the Menlo Park lab kept experimenting with different materials for filaments, since the burn time, or the time lig ...