{"id":5636,"date":"2018-06-14T11:13:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T10:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2018-06-14T11:13:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T10:13:44","slug":"what-if-thomas-edison-used-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/06\/what-if-thomas-edison-used-solidworks\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IF Thomas Edison used SOLIDWORKS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"colorbox-37737\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/thomas-edison-sw-electrical-v2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Edison has over one thousand patents to his name (individual or joint), 1,093 to be exact.\u00a0 Most notably for the light bulb, the phonograph, and an initial motion picture concept.\u00a0 He was also very famous in his early 30s and throughout his 84 years.\u00a0 He also had innovations in manufacturing and was a savvy businessman as well.<\/p>\n<p>I always wonder, however, what would he be working on if he was alive today?\u00a0 With so many advancements in technology and computers, it begs the question, what would he be working on?\u00a0 Would he finally have developed a flying car, teleportation, or something else we could not have imagined?\u00a0 I would figure that the patents would reach much higher numbers, as he could design and develop his ideas much quicker.\u00a0 He could also hire a staff of engineers and collaborate with these people on designs\u2026in SOLIDWORKS, of course.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to believe he would be designing new electrical systems using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/products\/products-solidworks-electrical\/solidworks-electrical-3d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D<\/a>, and collaborating with Alexander Graham Bell (see that blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/05\/what-if-alexander-graham-bell-used-solidworks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 Well, we put together this video to ask that very question:\u00a0 What If Thomas Edison had SOLIDWORKS?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What if Thomas Edison used SOLIDWORKS Electrical?\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U95P_Ldd9GI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this? What do you believe Edison would have created with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/products\/products-solidworks-electrical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOLIDWORKS<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/launch.solidworks.com\/mechatronics-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"colorbox-37737\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/sw_ecad_launch_banners_banner_961x250_final-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2018\/06\/what-if-thomas-edison-used-solidworks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOLIDWORKS Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Edison has over one thousand patents to his name (individual or joint), 1,093 to be exact.\u00a0 Most notably for the light bulb, the phonograph, and an initial motion picture&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,44],"tags":[25,118],"class_list":["post-5636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","category-solidworks-electrical","tag-solidworks-2","tag-solidworks-electrical"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}