Sunworshipper wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:28:33 -0400, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:

I'm seeing previews for the movie about the invention of intermittent
wipers
in '63. Think how things have changed in 45 years. Today, a manager at a
design firm would tell a group of engineers to design such a system and
have
several designs on his desk by the end of the day. True, they didn't have
555s in '63. So, is it that a unique idea is a lot more important than
the
actual design?

If you remember some of my previous posts about nurturing ideas that lead
to
designs, this has been an area of extreme interest to me. In the movie,
it
looks like Ford screws the idea/design guy, which makes me sick.
Designers
and model builders need more respect but idea guys need to be revered!
(coming from a guy that has had very, very few, if any, original ideas)


Jerome H. Lemelson

Edison had more inventions but he had squads of people doing a lot of the
work while old Tom took all the credit.