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Thomas Edison

Written at Thursday, April 23, 2009 | back to top

Thomas Edison was born in February 11, 1847 and passed away on October 18,1931. He was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly affect life around the world. The examples are, he invented the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical light bulb....

Edison was considered as one of the prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S patents in his name, same as the patents in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. He was rewarded with many inventions that helped to mass communication and in particular, telecommunications. His advanced work in these fields was growing out of his early career as a telegraph operator. He arised the concept and implementation of electric-power generation and distribution to homes, businesses and factories. His very first power plant was on Manhattan Island, New York....

Edison was born in Milan, Ohio and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. He was his parents, Samuel Edison and Nancy Matthews Eliott's seventh and last child. He developed hearing problem at an early age. The cause of him being deaf was because of scarlet fever during his childhood and causing untreated middle ear infections....

After Edison had saved a three-year old JImmie Mackenzie from being struck by a runaway train, Jimmie's father was grateful that he trained Edison as a telegraph operator. In 1866, at the age of 19, Thomas Edison moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where as employee of Western Union worked the Associated Press Bureau news wire. Edison requested the night shift which allowed him plenty of time to spend at his reading and experimenting....

During those early years, one of his mentors was a fellow telegrapher and inventor named, Franklin Leonard Pope, who allowed the impoverished youth to live and work in the basement of his Elizabeth, New Jersey home. A stock ticker and some other inventions were Edison's earliest inventions were related to telegrapghy. His first patent was for the electric vote recorder, which was granted on June 1, 1869....

Thomas Edison started off as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention which first got him fame was the phonography in 1877. This accomplishment was so unexpected by the public at large as to appear almost magicallly. Later Edison became known as " The Wizard of Menio Park, " New Jersey, where he lived. The sound quality of his first phonograph recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder....

Thoughtz....

Pamela :
I felt that Thomas Edison was a person that does not wants to lose to other people but he was also a very determined person that will strive to achieve his goals. He likes reading and doing experiments even if he was working in the night shift. He is someone that deserves us to learn from...

Crystal :
Ya I agree that he deserves us to learn from. But one thing i disagrees is that he should not use the time at work to do other things. He should use the time when he is not working but not when he is working...

Tzu Hsuen :
His spirit will never disappear as long as he work hard and do not give up. I think that he is also quite a proud person that does not want to lose to anyone.

Thomas Edison

Written at Thursday, April 23, 2009 | back to top