Facts On Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison, the man who illuminated our lives with his discovery of the light bulb. Though light bulb was not the only invention, his other major inventions were electric generating system, sound-recording device, and motion picture projector etc. |
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Born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, Edison was the seventh and the last child of his family. His father was a shingle manufacturer and their condition of living was quite poor. Owing to this terrible economic condition, Edison could only afford to attend school for three months and started selling newspaper to earn his living. He was only 12 years old when he started devoting his spare time to experiment with printing presses, electrical and mechanical tools.
Later, Edison was taught telegraphy when he made his first important invention, an automatic telegraphic machine, that can transmit messages without operator’s help. He moved to Boston where he greatly helped a company Gold and Stock Telegraph to improve their apparatus and services. Edison earned good money out of it and he further set up his own lab in 1876. In 1877, Edison came up with his next invention of a Phonograph and two year later, he announced the invention of the light bulb.
It was a remarkable success and meanwhile he engaged himself to improve the quality of bulbs and also started working on dynamos to generate electricity. In 1882, Edison developed the world’s first central electricity power station in the New York City.
In 1887, Edison moved to New Jersey and invented Kinetoscope in 1888, the first machine to produce the motion pictures.
He synchronized the phonograph and the kinetoscope to produce the first talking motion picture in 1913. Edison, rightly called the father of multiple inventions had patent almost 1000 discoveries. Among all, he discovered a few other things like electric pen, the mimeograph, the microtasimeter (used for the detection of minute changes in temperature), and a wireless telegraphic method for communicating with moving trains.
More than a scientist, Edison was a technologist. He, not only invented many new devices but also made a great effort to improve the existing technologies. This great man died in West Orange on October 18, 1931.
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Edison had a great influence on the society and the people. All his inventions were dedicated only to make a better society. He was the man who changed the lives of the people dramatically.