Being a witness to the Light Bulb invention by Thomas Edison

Histories unravel the past. An event we may not even be aware existed, but history has a way of giving us detailed knowledge of such events that took place in the past. There are some heroes who did great things in the past for the betterment of society, and there are those who only caused pain to the people. Our world has witnessed some historical events, both positively and negatively, and among those events, if I could witness any of them firsthand, then it would be the invention of the electric bulb by Thomson. A. Edison in 1879.

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Why do I want to witness this?

I would have loved to have been around when the electric bulb was invented, and the reason is that the idea of providing light at night is an interesting invention. Prior to that time, people were using a torch—not the current torch light you and I know now, but a light they made on a stick that they carried around. So the idea of having light in the night meant for darkness is very interesting, and that's one more reason why I would have loved to witness this revolution in my time.

When we know that there is always darkness in the night, people sleep in the dark and wake up to see the source of the sun ☀️ as the light, but then having that light even in the dark, where you can switch on your bulb and you have light, is something interesting to witness such a discovery.

Lessons I hope to learn from witnessing this history firsthand

Possibility: Anything is possible. Now, before the invention, probably no one believed that you could generate light from materials around you; combine materials, metals, and all that to generate light that will be glowing anytime you want it. The lesson is that anything is possible, no matter what is happening. It opens my mind to know that whatever I want to pursue is possible. That possible mindset is one of the lessons I will learn.

Persistence: Thomas A. Edison tried thousands of times to produce an electric bulb, and there's something he normally says that people uses as a quote. He said he didn't fail, but that he just discovered nine hundred and ninety nine ways in which an electric bulb cannot be made. Instead of saying and groaning that he failed 999 times, he turned that failure into a lesson and said that, that one time,was the one that produced an electric bulb. So he persisted;, he didn't give up;, he continue until he got it.

Determination: he didn't allow those setbacks to stop him. He was determined and focused. He continued to try many things; he went around the world looking for different materials and different ways to get things right. Researching upon research, he ensures that whatever he sets his mind to achieve, he will achieve that.

Hard work: His result shows that hard work pays. He did all those things—put in sweat and blood—and put in everything to get what he could, to make sure that what he was looking for, he got, so hard work pays.

Continuous improvement: when he discovered this invention, the light was "on" for just a few hours and then went "off", but that was his breakthrough. It was a possibility he found out about—at least it's possible—and so he continued to improve on it every day until this day, when we can have different bulbs in different shapes and colours in our different homes. These are the results that continuous improvement can yield.

My Final thought

In whatever we are doing, there is room for continuous improvement to make it better, finer, and easier by providing solutions every day and in everything we can think of.