Explaining why an invention such as the light bulb was developed at a particular time is difficult and may require understanding the period's economic conditions.

“well it's just hard i think like it's just hard to even like suppose you wanted to write a history of this right like you want to write the history of how was the like light bulb developed or something it's just really hard because uh to understand why specific things happen that specific time”

“times you probably need to understand so much about the economic conditions of the time uh like for example uh edison spent a ton of time uh experimenting with like different filaments to”