愛迪生（Thomas Edison）

讀書筆記：

• Edison’s search for a lamp filament “was conditioned by cost analyses,” the science historian Thomas Hughes wrote in the journal Technology and Culture. “In his notebooks pages of economic calculation are mixed with pages reporting experimental data, and among these one encounters reasoned explication and hypothesis formulation based on science – the web is seamless. His originality and impact lie…in this synthesis.”愛迪生尋找燈絲，「做過成本分析」，科學史學家湯瑪斯‧休茲（Thomas Hughes）在《科技與文化》（Technology and Culture）期刊寫道。「他的筆記本中，經濟計算的頁面和實驗數據報告的頁面混在一起，可以看到他根據科學，井井有條地解說和形成假說──整張網密接無縫。他的原創力和衝擊力，源自……這種集其大成的能力。」（Source: How to Jump-Start the Clean Tech Economy, Mark Johnson and Mark Suskewicz, Harvard Business Review, November 2009.）