Hi, Anton Shepelev! -> Ardith Hinton
I read your message from 05.08.2021 13:28

 AS> Life was slower in the past, and many technical innovations were
 AS> gained not so much by disciplined engineering and research, but by
 AS> hard and painful trial and error, like groping in the dark, through
 AS> several generations of masters and craftsmen. Thomas Eddison wrote
 AS> about his method that failure is the discovery another of way that
 AS> does not work. This approach is not always inferrior in that in can
 AS> lead to inventions that modern engineers, going by the more direct
 AS> route, overlook.

It's interesting -- do we use today any of Thomas Eddison's inventions?
I've caught myself at the idea that we don't.

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2021

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