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Validate Market Demand First
- Learn if your market actually wants your product before scaling or promoting it.
- Edison found his vote recorder failed because officials preferred slow votes for bargaining.
Blueprint For Modern R&D
- Edison built a full-service R&D-to-production facility blueprint at an early age.
- That Menlo Park model combined fundamental research, development, manufacturing and sales under one roof.
Phonograph Debut
- Edison demos the phonograph with a tinfoil-covered cylinder and astonishes Scientific American staff in 1877.
- He played back "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and gained the nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park."