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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED (youtu.be)
submitted 1 year ago by Whirling_Cloudburst to c/technology
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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, I watched the video. Inventing stuff is obviously very expensive and I doubt anyone could have done it without being financed in some way.

Why are you so sure that the eventually hypothetical inventor wouldn't have patented it? Inventing is expensive and one would presumably want to make the millions spent on the project back and isn't your time worth anything?

I am happy that the invention wasn't delayed considering how much it has changed the world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, the video even showed that there WERE notable people other than him travelling down the same path, his first few leaps were copied off them, he just figured out the last few himself