Thomas Edison
When Thomas A. Edison, a young man in the late 1860s, he had made the same mistake that many beginners make today's inventors to make, he concentrated all its efforts on developing and patenting an invention, but to ensure a thorough market research before if it had to have a good chance of becoming a commercial success.
Edison's first patented invention was a legal vote burner (U.S. Patent No. 90,646). The unit has been surprisingly innovative, so the legislature to cast their votes in record time. It has the whole voting process far more efficient than the system with a roll call vote which was busy at that time. Edison had no doubt that it would be a commercial success. Who in their right mind would not want something as effective and time saving?
Pumped full of optimism, was the embodiment of his invention, Edison, Washington, DC, to show it to a conference committee. He was shocked that none of the committee that what he had done, impressed. And to add insult to injury, the chairman of the committee could not resist saying: "If there is any invention on earth, we do not want down here, that's it." Swallowing his pride, Edison was forced to abandon his invention.
When Edison's time, was to study the market before the proceedings with his invention, he had determined that it would continue a foolish waste of time and money for the development of the voice recorder last phase of the initial concepts. But the political process is not something that he knew, not to mention the slow roll-call vote that the Congress workers. He was aware that this political maneuvering politicians can easily be blocked to make offers, invoices, and behind the scenes to diverge. He wanted to find out too late that he would support a notion that she had no desire to.
After the vote recorder demonstration crashed and burned, swore Edison inventions only work that people actually wanted to buy. He eventually created the world's first research laboratory that is pumped out thousands of inventions that made him a millionaire and create a technological heritage that is up to date, remained so.
