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He definitely wasn't. And more importantly, neither was Edison.



Patents with his name on it: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/ste...

While he didn't invent all that stuff himself, it's not like he had nothing to do with any of it.


That's not what "individual" means. Both of then ran organizations of inventors.




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