Throughout history, not only the United States but also around the world, competition is a key component in progress. Whether it be sports, job opportunities, or businesses in general, competition creates an atmosphere in which people want to succeed and be better at than others which is the case in The Age of Edison. In other words, it is similar to Darwin’s idea of the survival of the fittest. What some people do not understand is that while growing up learning about all these great inventors like Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Graham Bell, and many others that there were other notable scientists who competed against these well known inventors, but did not get noticed or famous for their academic achievements. Competition
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Because both of these inventors were competitive with trying to establish who was going to win the efficient light bulb race, these two pushed each other until the end result was accomplished. Although Brush and Edison were very competitive Americans, there was a different type of rivalry which was between the United States and Europe. This rivalry between between the
United States and Europe leads back to the Revolutionary War when the colonists gained their independence from the British who happen to be a European country. Edison wanted to inform the foreigners during the Paris exposition of 1881 of his groundbreaking contributions to the telegraph, the phonograph, and the telephone (Freedberg 40-42). This was used as an intimidation technique to show his European competition how successful he has been in the past.
He ended up winning the exhibition’s only Gold Medal of Honor for electric lighting (Freedberg
43) In the end, Edison mae quite the impression on the Europeans. William Preece, an English expert, reported back to London that they needed to take back the “many unkind things” that had been said about Edison (Freedberg 43). Since the competition was so high between the
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This eliminates the need for a supplier of goods which puts some jobs in jeopardy because they would be losing a huge customer. Although this type of integration cuts costs, it does not need the middleman anymore (Hewitt and Lawson 499). Horizontal integration focuses in gaining control over the market that sold the same product (Hewitt and Lawson 499). By doing this, the company can control the price due to the limited competition. Without competition, not much progress was done because there was not much progression in technological and business innovations. Competition is what made business and technological advances. There were many different types of competition for Edison while he searched for a cheaper way the create light.
Some of his competition included Charles Brush and European inventors. When there is little to no competition, prices go up and jobs are cut down. There definitely needs to be different types of competition in order to remain a successful nation.
Works Cited
Freedberg, Earnest. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America. New York: Penguin , 2014, pp.
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It provides an efficient and not to mention economic source of electricity for his most famous invention, the arc light. Brush did not invent the first arc light. But, the arc lights that. were used at the time, were very inefficient and impractical. When an arc light is used, carbon electrodes are.
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