Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 18, 2021

According to history.com, of those 1,093 patents: 389 were for electric light and power, 195 for the phonograph, 150 for the telegraph, 141 for storage batteries and 34 for the telephone.

Where does one even find a nano-chameleon?

Edison’s many patents were primarily due to his fine crew that worked in his lab.

Various photos of “Dead Man’s Fingers” (and toes!): https://nerdist.com/article/creepy-dead-mans-fingers-fungus/

Photo of the Nano-Chameleon: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/nano-chameleon-1.5901068

Is it true that many of Edisons patents were not actually his inventions but from the work of his employees that he got credit for?

what college did Mr. Edison graduate from?

All at the same time? It would be tough to carry 1093 of anything without dropping a few

Hey, Tom. How many of those patents were actually invented by someone else?

Wow Edison must have had huge hands to hold 1093 patents at the same time.

@Jasonsnakelover as our budding resident herpetologist do you know anything about these nano-chameleons?

HEY NONNY NONNY.

Take care, may famed lyricist Gordon Ganojord be with you, and gesundheit.

Thomas Edison stole 1093 patents is more accurate.

Edison was the sole inventor of relatively few things. His greatest sole invention was the R&D lab where people collaborated on ideas and product development, which led to most of his patents, as they were filed in his name.

…leather shoes. Edison was a fashion nut.

Xylaria Polymorpha was my ex-mother-in-law’s maiden name.

Nano has been signed to represent one of the smaller insurance companies near you.

♪"Pesticide is at your side…"♫

And to think that Thomas Edison never finished high school. Just proves that you can give a man an education, but you can’t make him think.

Funny, the people whining about Edison are the same ones who think Steve Jobs was great. Jobs was just a glorified taskmaster and marketer.

there is a male joke in there somewhere!

Held, as in harvested the work of employees

Thomas Edison may have held 1,093 patents, but— clumsy as he was— he dropped 658 others. BELIEVE IT, OR DON’T!

Who owns the Edison’s 1,093 patents?

The World’s smallest known vertebrate species is a frog that is 7.7 mm long.

The miniscule nature of the nano-chamelion sounds a lot less impressive if you state it as 2.2 cm. Figuring out why is left as an exercise for the reader.

The reptile was discovered after being washed in hot water and quickly dried…

Oh my goodness, that itty bitty chameleon is adorable.

Finally…posts that I’ve heard of before.

Most of Edison’s patents were for the work of other people. He was a LOT more administrator than actual inventor. Edison ‘HATED’ Tesla because Tesla was so much more intelligent and creative than he was. Edison held patents for things that Tesla created when Tesla worked for Edison.