There’s something mythical about inventors throughout history. People who were able to see the need for something that had never existed before and make it come to life. It’s a kind of genius that many aspire to but few ever achieve.

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10. Abner Doubleday Didn’t Invent Baseball
9. Apple Didn’t Invent the iPod
8. Samuel Morse Didn’t Invent the Telegraph
7. Edison Didn’t Invent the Movie Projector
6. Parker Brothers didn’t create Monopoly
5. Marconi Didn’t Invent Radio
4. Galileo Didn’t Invent the Telescope
3. George Washington Carver Didn’t Invent Peanut Butter
2. Alexander Graham Bell Did Not Invent the Telephone
1. Edison Didn’t Invent the Light Bulb

Source/Further reading:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Scientists_and_Inventors_Mosaic.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inventors_(1893)_(14591213339).jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14777643562
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abner_Doubleday.jpg
https://nypl.getarchive.net/media/doubleday-major-general-abner-originator-of-game-d843c4
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doubleday_Hill_Monument.JPG
https://nypl.getarchive.net/media/abner-dalrymple-7c342b
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nat507/6301165314
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abner_Doubleday_marker.jpg
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Ipod_1G.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lightmatter_ipod_1G.jpg
https://www.popsugar.com/tech/Inventor-First-MP3-Player-22830932
https://lowendmac.com/2008/kane-kramer-i-invented-the-ipod-in-1979/
https://www.engadget.com/2008-09-08-apple-credits-kane-kramer-with-invention-of-the-digital-audio-pl.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE_bDNaYAr8
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Morse_with_his_Recorder_by_Brady,_1857.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Morse.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morse_telegraph.jpg
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Cooke_and_Wheatstone.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_F.B._Morse,_half-length_portrait,_posing_with_left_hand_on_a_telegraph_apparatus,_facing_slightly_left_LCCN2001700118.jpg
https://www.nps.gov/edis/learn/news/images/edison-listening-to-phono.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Film_Jenkins_Phantascope.jpg
https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/thomas-armat/
https://monopoly.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Monopoly_Games_(Board)
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Small_Box_Monopoly.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lizzie_Magie_-_My_Betrothed,_and_Other_Poems.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drawing_for_a_Game_Board_-_NARA_-_595519.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N.Tesla.JPG
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:TeslaWirelessPower1891.png
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/communications/article/21759673/marconi-did-not-invent-radio