Personally I have no affection for Edison. He was a dick. May have been saved by Grace but that’s between him and the Lord. On Earth he was a dick. I think much of his success was intellectual property theft and manic trial and error, not scientific process. Like the analogy of a monkey trying out the alphabet if given enough time on the keyboard.
Regarding the Wrights they were scientists and amazingly hard workers and innovators. I never would have made fun of their machine as it was the best in the world at the time. A nearly infinite step forward from no airplanes at all. These full scale RC electric fliers are a step backwards.