6:48pm on October 31, 2024 from Istanbul, Turkey.
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title: Thomas Edison, Edison to Puskas, 1878
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source: {'title': 'Edison to Puskas', 'creator': 'Thomas Edison', 'created': datetime.date(1878, 11, 13), 'note': 'Edison to Puskas, 13 November 1878, Edison papers, Edison National Laboratory, U.S. National Park Service, West Orange, N.J., cited in Hughes, Thomas Parke (1989). American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970. Penguin Books. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-14-009741-2', 'text': 'It has been just so in all of my inventions.\nThe first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise—this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs"—as such little faults and difficulties are called—show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached.\n', 'html': 'It has been just so in all of my inventions.\nThe first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise—this thing gives out and [it is] then that “Bugs”—as such little faults and difficulties are called—show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached.
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