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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 186227" data-attributes="member: 175235">I wasn't really trying to claim Edison invented the lightbulb, I was just using it as an example of something that would still have been invented if the original inventor had not been around (in fact I hadn't put much thought into the example). Someone would have come up with the idea if neither Swan or Edison had been around.At the moment I'm going with the inventor of the alphabet. It might seem like that has been 'invented' several times, but it hasn't.Scripts and methods for writing things down were developed in several places at once, but all the alphabets we use evolved from just one, developed about 4000 years ago. Only one other true alphabet unrelated to this has been found, so yes it may have been invented had the original people in the Sinai desert not come up with it, but I still think they deserve some credit.Then again perhaps not, the Chinese and Japanese (and many others) seem to do fine without an alphabet <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 186227, member: 175235"] I wasn't really trying to claim Edison invented the lightbulb, I was just using it as an example of something that would still have been invented if the original inventor had not been around (in fact I hadn't put much thought into the example). Someone would have come up with the idea if neither Swan or Edison had been around. At the moment I'm going with the inventor of the alphabet. It might seem like that has been 'invented' several times, but it hasn't. Scripts and methods for writing things down were developed in several places at once, but all the alphabets we use evolved from just one, developed about 4000 years ago. Only one other true alphabet unrelated to this has been found, so yes it may have been invented had the original people in the Sinai desert not come up with it, but I still think they deserve some credit. Then again perhaps not, the Chinese and Japanese (and many others) seem to do fine without an alphabet :) [/QUOTE]

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