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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 370
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
No man exceeds Thomas A. Edison in broad vision and understanding. I met him first many years ago when I was with the Detroit Edison Company--probably about 1887 or thereabouts. The electrical men held a convention at Atlantic City, and Edison, as the leader in electrical science, made an address. I was then working on my gasoline engine, and most people, including all of my associates in the electrical company, had taken pains to tell me that time spent on a gasoline engine was time wasted--that the power of the future was to be electricity. These criticisms had not made any impression on me. I was working ahead with all my might. But being in the same room with Edison suggested to me that it would be a good idea to find out if the master of electricity thought it was going to be the only power in the future. So, after Mr. Edison had finished his address, I managed to catch him alone for a moment. I told him what I was working on.
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定位：Additional excerpt 370 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
福特说，论眼界和理解力，没人超过托马斯·爱迪生。他第一次见爱迪生是很多年前在底特律爱迪生公司工作时，大约1887年前后。当时电气界在大西洋城开会，爱迪生作为电气科学领袖发表演讲。福特那时正在研究汽油发动机，而大多数人，包括电气公司的所有同事，都费心告诉他：花时间搞汽油机是浪费，未来的动力是电。这些批评没影响他，他全力推进。但和爱迪生同处一室，让他想到：不如去问问这位电力大师，是不是认为电会是未来唯一的动力。于是演讲结束后，他设法单独截住爱迪生，告诉他自己在做什么。
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福特在自传中回忆年轻时研究汽油发动机、遭到身边人质疑，却想向爱迪生求证的往事。
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当你被周围人一致否定时，你会去找谁求证，而不是直接放弃？
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