19世纪的美国,涌现出一批改变世界的发明以及发明家:海拉姆·穆尔发明了收割机、莫尔斯发明了电报、贝尔发明了电话……其中最伟大的一个则是爱迪生,在他1931年去世的时候,爱迪生获得了1093种发明专利。正如爱迪生的传记作者尼尔·鲍尔温所说:爱迪生实际上是终其一生“发明了这个世纪”——20世纪。 Nineteenth-century America emerged with a number of inventions and inventors who changed the world: hammock Moore invented the harvester, Morse invented the telegram, and Bell invented the telephone ... One of the greatest of these was Edison, When he died in 1931, Edison received 1,093 invention patents. As Edison biographer Neal Baldwin put it: Edison is actually the end of his life “invented this century” - the 20th century.