Sure, China. You can build a nuclear power plant from dirt to operation in 6 months. Not 10 years plus infinite overages, 6 months.

If there’s not a perverse profit motive at every stage and instead people are rewarded for getting the job done and getting the job done right, you end up with high quality fast engineering.

Literally only in the US and Europe. Remove the profit motive and don’t keep on inefficient construction companies and it’s a quick process.

Here’s an introduction to Thomas Edison, https://theconversation.com/thomas-edison-visionary-genius-or-fraud-99229

It has actual sources, and isn’t a 4.5 hour sponsored video from whatever estate is trying to do PR for the name Edison.

Got one not from a channel that wholesale publishes sponsored work?

Edison was a monster by every contemporary and modern account. I don’t know who paid him to narrate nonsense, but let’s not rehabilitate one of the worst humans on the planet.