Accounts often portray Edison as simply having the idea for the light bulb, overlooking the work required to make it practical and usable.

“then your face is a problem well i mean it's like 1880 or something and then u.s homes don't have electricity so then nobody can use it so now you have to build power plants and build power lines to the houses so that people have electricity in their homes so that they can actually use this new light bulb that you created so he did that and but then people present it as if it's like a okay he just came up with the idea like it's a light bulb”