Official British opinion was firmly opposed to granting Edison any priority. The scientific journal Nature dismissed his light bulb as an “absolute failure: flawed in design and principle, and serving only to demonstrate how a crafty doer can dispense with genuine scientific expertise.” In Paris, it was more or less the same: it was impossible to believe that his light bulb did not deteriorate with incandescence. Edison took the Europeans’ anti-Americanism philosophically enough to ignore these comments.
