{"id":19451,"date":"2015-10-07T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=19451"},"modified":"2018-05-30T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:06:20","slug":"three-famous-inventors-who-overcame-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/three-famous-inventors-who-overcame-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Famous Inventors Who Overcame Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cEvery glowing path that goes astray\u2026 shows you how to find a Better Way!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leave it to a 1968 classic children\u2019s film to provide just the right amount of inspiration and humor to keep us motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Recently,\u00a0our founder and CEO, Mr. Davison,\u00a0shared the inspirational tune <em>The Roses of Success<\/em> from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062803\/\">Chitty Chitty Bang Bang<\/a>, a movie about a down-on-his-luck inventor who eventually invents a revolutionary flying car. See the song below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GND10sWq0n0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Throughout this movie and this song in particular, viewers are shown that sometimes things don\u2019t play out as you\u2019d hope. This notion applies perfectly to the world of inventing.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes our imaginations run free and we believe that our inventions will be an instant record-breaking success. However, even some of the most famous inventors had to overcome obstacles in order to achieve success!<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t believe us, here\u2019s a short list of inventors who had to overcome failure.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with an example right from the song!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19453\" title=\"Alexander_Graham_Bell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alexander_Graham_Bell-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander_Graham_Bell\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexander Graham Bell &#8211; <\/strong><em> <\/em>Straight from <em>Chitty Chitty Bang Bang <\/em>is a verse that encapsulates Bell\u2019s struggles to claim his invention of the telephone as his own! For years and years, Bell faced legal challenges to claim that he was the sole inventor. Rather than give up, Bell embarked on one of the longest patent battles in history to fight for his idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19454\" title=\"Thomas Edison\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Thomas-Edison-10.7.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Edison\" width=\"198\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Edison \u2013 <\/strong>The phonograph, electrical lamp and the movie camera were just a few of the inventions that are credited to Edison. However, none of these inventions, plus his more than 1,000 patents, would have been possible if he listened to his teachers that told him he was \u201ctoo stupid to learn anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19452\" title=\"Walt Disney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Walt-Disney-10.7-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Walt Disney\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Walt Disney <\/strong>\u2013 Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney World wouldn\u2019t mean anything to us today if Walt Disney listened to the newspaper editor who fired him because he \u201clacked imagination and had no good ideas.\u201d But, that wasn\u2019t the only failure that Disney ever experienced. In fact, several more of his business ventures failed before the premiere of his movie \u201cSnow White.\u201d Despite these failures, we can see today that those detours eventually would lead him down the road to ultimate success!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our own founder and CEO Mr. Davison for sharing this inspirational clip to show us that even the most successful inventors had to overcome their fair share of failures and obstacles to reach their own <em>Roses of Success<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright Davison, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/successful-people-who-failed-at-first-2014-3\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/successful-people-who-failed-at-first-2014-3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Media:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GND10sWq0n0\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/GND10sWq0n0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/10\/Alexander_Graham_Bell.jpg\">https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/10\/Alexander_Graham_Bell.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9d\/Thomas_Edison2.jpg\">https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9d\/Thomas_Edison2.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/df\/Walt_Disney_1946.JPG\">https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/df\/Walt_Disney_1946.JPG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEvery glowing path that goes astray\u2026 shows you how to find a Better Way!\u201d Leave it to a 1968 classic children\u2019s film to provide just the right amount of inspiration and humor to keep us motivated. Recently,\u00a0our founder and CEO, Mr. Davison,\u00a0shared the inspirational tune The Roses of Success from\u00a0Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a movie &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[793,15,66],"tags":[1881,1882,97,88,714,1883,673,639],"class_list":["post-19451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovative-inventions","category-inventions","category-inventor-stories","tag-alexander-graham-bell","tag-failed-inventions","tag-george-davison","tag-inventors","tag-patents-2","tag-the-roses-of-success","tag-thomas-edison","tag-walt-disney"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Three Famous Inventors Who Overcame Failure - Davison<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. 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