Written by London Swaminathan
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Date: 16 December 2018
GMT Time uploaded in London – 20-59
Post No. 5791

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Experimenters Anecdotes 

Edison failed thousands of times!

Results! Exclaimed Edison to an assistant marvelling at the bewildering total of his failures— 50000 experiments for example, before he succeeded with a new storage battery.
Results? Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know fifty thousand things that won’t work.

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Shelley s Secret Experiments

Shelley s lifelong Interest in science, especially chemistry, was a roused by a quack lecturer who visited his first school, Sion House. At Eton he was forbidden to study chemistry, and so performed experiments in his room.

One day his tutor Mr Bethel, heard strange noises from his room, entered and found Shelley envelope d in blue flames.
What on earth are you doing, Shelley? Asked the teacher.
Please, Sir, I am raising the devil.
The startled tutor put his hand on some apparatus which being a Leyden jar gave him a bad shock.

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Fluke and Luck

Edison s school of scientific experimentation was essentially empirical. Once he was seeking a solvent for hard rubber. Many scientists, seeking it through theory or formula, were yet helpless. Edison went to his impressive and remarkably complete store room of chemical s. He immersed a small fragment of hard rubber in a vial of each one of these many chemical s. It was an enormous number. But Edison found his solvent.

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