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What About Edison?

Cruto was one of the earliest inventors of the heated-filament or "incandescent" the light bulb. Edison, often credited as "the" inventors of it, was arguably the inventor of industrial "R&D," the purported marriage of science to the production of marketable products.

The article includes the following slightly ungrammatical sentence: After attending some conferences held by Galileo Ferraris on electric technology - as well as Thomas Edison experiments to find a good filament for incandescent lights - he discovered that a Carbon filament treated with ethylene under high pressure and temperature acquired a positive resistance coefficient (its resistance depends on temperature, when temperature increases, it increase its resistance).

I don't know whether the writer wants to say that Cruto attended some experiments, or simply to say that Edison's experiments were known to the public without Edison having yet patented the invention, or what.

No doubt the writer wants to avoid the controversy about prior invention. Google today, however, makes it easy for us to read about the several almost simultaneously active inventors, so the discussion need not be as rancorous as it once was.

Could somebody knowledgable, preferable the original author, fix that pesky missing apostrophe, comma, or whatever is called for by the demands of clarity?

There's also a royal C on "Carbon" that needs to be lower-cased, but I can't find the edit-click to fix it myself, dammit.

David Lloyd-Jones (talk) 08:07, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to fix that part. I am not the original author but the sentence was taken from the Italian Wikipedia, so I just re-translated it. I am not sure my version is 100% correct – English is not my first language – but it should be better than before. Regards, Gengis Gat (talk) 21:00, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]