Did you know many of the Ideas Edison had were stolen from other people but he knew how to steal. He said as much. You can't blame him, he had little education. It was the workers he hired that did the inventing in many cases. He gave them the ideas which he stole. Now a man that lived during the same time names Emer Gates had twice as many patents and never stole a thing. He sat in a sound proof office thinking of ideas, according to Napoleon Hill. He used Creative Vision.