Edison. was a fast worker, but even so, he was well aware that unfinished ideas take a very long time to reach their true value. “[Many people think that invention is something that appears in its complete form at one moment in time, but it is not. The phonograph, for example, was born after a long, slow process. I started working on it when I was a telegraph operator in Indianapolis during the Civil War,” he says, “so it took me from 1964 to 1877 to complete the prototype.
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- I can’t make sense of piecem, I can find several examples of it as piece, is it a misprint?
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