The field of invention back then differed from its modern form. Today's inventors are in industrial or governmental labs, none of the early inventors had this problem. These modern labs tend to slow down the inventive momentum of the inventor. These labs tend to make 5% refinements rather than 95% breakthroughs. There were such "think tanks" in the earlier

Because of the freedom that was allowed to them being free of large-scale industries they also ran into funding problems. These problems were overcome if the inventor could market his product or idea which Edison and Sperry were said to be very good at. Often making unattainable goals to keep their investors interest. Such as Edison's claim to produce 500,000 bulbs in a year, when in 4 years he only produced 12,843.

Because of the freedom of the time inventors had to narrow down what they would focus on. This was done w/ varying methods. They would look at previous patents on which improvements could be made, or they would search many different journals to get ideas from. So the inventors of the day did utilize collaboration from others just in a different way, such as entries published in journals.

Most inventors of the day greatly preferred technical problems to problems of management and sales, such as Sperry and De Forest who su

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