*From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs, the individual inventor is a hero in our popu...

redwall_hp · on April 15, 2014

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

jonny_eh · on April 15, 2014

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

judk · on April 15, 2014

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

jacquesm · on April 15, 2014

I read that as promoting the opposite, that both Jobs & Edison did very well on the work of others.