Edison didn't invent electricity — he invented the electric bill, argues thread
acmoytoy · x · 2026-09-06
Brian Roemmele's thread argues Edison's real genius was business model, not invention: by the late 1870s the physics was public and Swan already had a working bulb. Edison built a monopoly-ready stack — Edison Electric Illuminating Company, long-lasting high-resistance filaments, the "Jumbo" generator — to sell kilowatt-hours as an invisible recurring utility, like gas companies sold light.
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