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Electricity, radio waves, flight, antibiotics.. it seems to me that private industry and individuals produce the MOST interesting fundamental results.

It might be good to check your confidence in your knowledge.

> His work was funded by France. Citation needed.

Everything I've read he was a private citizen experimenting in his father's laboratory and not part of any academic institution or receiving any government funding.



Electricity - not a single result, but a big topic, to which contributed Faraday, Galvani, Volta, Thomson among others. You can check where they worked. Ben Franklin funded research himself, but his contribution to modern theory of electricity is not the biggest.

Radio waves - Maxwell, of course. Radio receiver/transmitter invented both by Popov and Marconi independently of each other, so it’s 50/50 academic vs commercial research.

Flight - impossible to attribute to a single person or team of inventors. There are balloons, gliders, airplanes, space flight etc. Wright brothers built a machine, but there was prior research in academia. Theory of flight was developed with heavy influence of military (i.e. state funding) and I can name a number of state-funded institutions in different countries which advanced the science significantly. Commercialization did help, but not as the only driver and probably not the main one.

Antibiotics - what fundamental result do you mean exactly? It’s a broad term with a rich history, a lot of initial research done in non-commercial institutions.

I will stop here. I have an impression that your views have something to do with your personal grievances. If you want to construct some unorthodox theory of how science works, good luck with that.


So much rationalization. Anytime someone has to rationalize to this great of an extent... I know they have an agenda.

It's extremely simple.

The wright brothers discovered/ invented flight.

Ben Franklin discovered/ invented electricity.

Marconi: radio waves

Flemming: antibiotics

This is settled history agreed upon worldwide, this is not controversial or complicated.

why do you have to rationalize so much!?


His father was a professor at the French National Museum of Natural History, that's presumably where the lab was.




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