Thomas Edison
Thomas
Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was an
American inventor and businessman. He was known to be the wizards of
inventions holding 1093 US patents in his name and as many patents in
UK, France and Germany. His famous inventions are namely – phonograph,
motion picture camera and long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
He was also credited for first industrial research laboratory. He was
also responsible for generating electricity to be used in houses and
industries at mass scale.
Childhood
Thomas
Edison was born to father Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. and mother Nancy
Matthews Elliot. Edison didn’t continue his school education and much of
his learning came from his mother only. He constantly followed reading
R.G. Parker's School of Natural Philosophy and The Cooper Union.
Education
The
first hands-on experience of Edison was as a telegraph operator and
trained at Mount Clemens, Michigan. Later, Grand Trunk Railway offered
him his first job as telegraph operator. Along with that, Edison kept on
working on various experiments and came out with stock ticker.
Career
Thomas
Edison’s first patent was of electric vote recorder granted on June 1,
1869. Most of his work was at Newark, New Jersey. In 1877, he got the
recognition for “phonograph”. At Menlo Park, Edison built the first
industrial lab where he carried several research and innovations. His
inventions established major new industries world-wide notably electric
light, power utilities and telecommunication. Nearly all of Edison's
patents were utility patents.
Edison
was not the inventor of electric bulbs, but he invented the method to
produce first commercially practical light bulb. The earlier scientists
who worked on making bulbs had flaws like - extremely short life, high
expense to produce, and high electric current drawn, making them
difficult to apply on a large scale commercially. During 1878, following
his business interests, Thomas Edison founded Edison Electric Light
Company (now known as: General Electric) and gave the world a future of
lights. In early 1880s, Edison invented and patented the system of
electricity distribution.
At the End
On
October 18, 1931, Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes in
his home "Glenmont" in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey. He is
buried behind the home. Edison's last breath is reportedly contained in a
test tube at the Henry Ford Museum.
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