From The Laboratory Of Thomas A. Edison
Subject
Value Analysis (Cost Control)
Economic Engineering
Ideas
Resistance
Notes
Permanent Link
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/6060Type
Other
Description
Text of a letter dated Nov. 27, 1926 from Thomas Edison to W. L. R. Emmett of GE with the comment "...it takes about seven years to convert the average man to the acceptance of a solved problem." [Used as an anecdote in some of L. D. Miles' speeches.]