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    One More Time

    Feb 01, 2019 4 minutes
    by Kathiann M. Kowalski

    If you want to turn on a light, you flip a switch. Sounds simple, right? But it wasn’t so simple for Thomas A. Edison. He invented the first practical light bulb. And it took thousands of tries before his light bulb came on and stayed lit. Even then, he and his team kept tinkering to improve it. As Edison once said, “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Read on to learn more about inventors who just kept trying.

    Thomas A. Edison (1847–1931)

    Thomas A. Edison had already invented

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