Husband and wife: Edison's midnight discovery
Illustration★★★★When Thomas Edison was inventing the electric light bulb, he spent many years trying to discover the right combination of materials to make it work: the right filament, the right contain- er, the right gas. Finally one night, about three o’clock in the morning, it all came together. Edison actually had made the device glow. Excitedly, he ran into the bedroom where his wife was sleeping soundly. “Darling, look!” he cried out. Mrs. Edison awakened, rolled over and pleaded: “Will you shut that light off and come to bed?”
The point
Thomas Edison excitedly wakes his wife at 3am to show her the glowing light bulb; she sleepily asks him to shut it off and come to bed—humorously illustrating different perspectives on achievement.
Audience
Adults
Tone
Humorous · Relatable
To tell aloud
under a minute · 91 words