(CNN) -- The death of Steve Jobs has renewed comparisons to another great innovator who died 80 years ago this month -- Thomas Edison. But there are important differences between the two men. 

In the 80 years between their deaths, consumers came to dominate the economy, a transformation that was only beginning during the later years of Edison's life. Steve Jobs was a master at understanding how to create transformative consumer technologies. 

Although Edison was a key innovator in two consumer technologies -- sound recording and motion pictures -- he struggled to understand the consumer markets he helped to create. His most important technological innovation was the electrical system, which made possible the personal computers, music players and smartphones innovated by Jobs. Edison was also more involved in the day-to-day work of invention than Jobs, and his other great innovation was the industrial research and development laboratory 

While the differences between Edison and Jobs are important, so, are their similarities. These offer lessons for other innovators. Jobs and Edison succeeded because they were good at envisioning how long-term developments in scientific and technical knowledge could be transformed into new technologies. 

At the start of his electric light research Edison described his vision for an entire electric light and power system and then used the knowledge of decades of research on incandescent lamps and generators to create the first viable incandescent lamp and the entire electric light and power system that made it commercially viable. 

Similarly, before developing the Macintosh computer, Jobs envisioned how two decades of work on graphical user interfaces and the computer mouse could transform the way people used computers, and also how the development of touchscreens and miniaturization could be transformed into the smartphone.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who is Steve Jobs being compared to?
2. What historical figure is Steve Jobs being likened to? 
3. Who are people saying that Steve Jobs was like?
Q2:
1. What did Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison have in common?
2. What was a point of commonality between Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison?
3. What trait did Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs share?
Q3:
1. How many years were between the deaths of Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison?
2. How many years apart did Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison pass away?
3. What was the number of years separating the deaths of Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison?
Q4:
1. How many inventions was Thomas Edison fundamental in creating?
2. How many inventions owe their existence to Thomas Edison?
3. What was the number of inventions that Thomas Edison was key in coming up with?
Q5:
1. What were Thomas Edison's key inventions?
2. What inventions was Thomas Edison fundamental in coming up with?
3. Which inventions owe their existence to Thomas Edison?
Q6:
1. Did Thomas Edison understand consumer markets?
2. Were the consumer's desires clear to Thomas Edison?
3. Did Thomas Edison have his finger on the pulse regarding consumers?
Q7:
1. What was Thomas Edison better at between him and Steve Jobs?
2. What did Thomas Edison do better than Steve Jobs?
3. What did Thomas Edison have Steve Jobs beat at?
Q8:
1. What did Steve Jobs have Thomas Edison beat at?
2. What was Steve Jobs more skilled at between him and Thomas Edison?
3. What did Steve Jobs do better than Thomas Edison?
Q9:
1. Who came up with electricity?
2. Who discovered electrical systems?
3. Who was the innovator responsible for electricity?
Q10:
1. What did Thomas Edison's electrical systems lead to?
2. What has been made possible by Edison's electricity?
3. What exists thanks to the discovery of electricity?
