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Charles Stevenson's piece highlights an important theme that has been brought up several times in this course. The person who gets credit for an invention is not always the person solely responsible for creating it. Stevenson refers to Henry Ford as a "sponsor" of the process of mass production and not as the sole inventor. In the cases of many other artifacts such as the cotton gin and the Bessemer steel process, it is unclear as to who should receive credit. Thomas Edison was given credit for inventing the light bulb, when in fact he had dozens of people working in his laboratory helping him. It also seems common to forget that none of these artifacts were created out of the blue, but came from antecedents. Stevenson is just stating his role in developing the process of mass production. -- Karen Siegmund | Charles Stevenson's piece highlights an important theme that has been brought up several times in this course. The person who gets credit for an invention is not always the person solely responsible for creating it. Stevenson refers to Henry Ford as a "sponsor" of the process of mass production and not as the sole inventor. In the cases of many other artifacts such as the cotton gin and the Bessemer steel process, it is unclear as to who should receive credit. Thomas Edison was given credit for inventing the light bulb, when in fact he had dozens of people working in his laboratory helping him. It also seems common to forget that none of these artifacts were created out of the blue, but came from antecedents. Stevenson is just stating his role in developing the process of mass production. -- Karen Siegmund | ||
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| + | I found "How Electricity....Happiness of the Family" to be a rather unintelligent essay. Blaming wives for not making the house pretty enough as the cause for their husbands to "wander" is ridiculous. Electricity does not constitute fidelity. Additionally, food cooked from non-electric sources, like charcoal grills, usually smells and tastes ten times better than anything cooked with electricity. -Brian Brown | ||
