· Occupation:
Businessman and Inventor
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| Thomas Edison |
· Born: February
11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio
· Died: October
18, 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey
· Best known for:
Inventing many useful items including the phonograph and a practical light bulb
Biography:
Thomas Edison may be the greatest
inventor in history. He has over 1000 patents in his name. Many of his
inventions still have a major effect on our lives today. He was also a business
entrepreneur. Several of his inventions were group efforts in his large
invention laboratory where he had lots of people working for him to help
develop, build, and test his inventions. Edison used his inventions to form
companies including General Electric, which is one of the biggest corporations
in the world today...
Where did Edison grow up?
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| Edison and Phonograph |
Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio
on February 11, 1847. His family soon moved to Port Huron, Michigan where he
spent most of his childhood. Surprisingly, he did not do well in school and
ended up being home schooled by his mother. Thomas was an enterprising young
man, selling vegetables, candy and newspapers on trains. One day he saved a
child from a runaway train. The child's father repaid Edison by training him as
a telegraph operator. As a telegraph operator, Thomas became interested in
communications, which would be the focus of many of his inventions.
What was Menlo Park???
Menlo Park, New Jersey is where
Thomas Edison built his research labs. This was the first business or
institution with the sole purpose of inventing. They would do research and
science and then apply it to practical applications that could be manufactured
and built on a large scale. There were a lot of employees working for Edison at
Menlo Park. These workers were inventors, too, and did a lot of work on
Edison's ideas to help turn them into inventions.
What are Thomas Edison's most famous inventions?
Thomas Edison has the patents and
credits for many inventions. Three of his most famous include:
The Phonograph - This was the first
major invention by Edison and made him famous. It was the first machine that
was able to record and playback sound…
The Motion Picture - Edison did a lot
of
work in creating the motion picture camera and helping move forward the
progress of practical movies.
Fun Facts about Thomas Edison
· His middle name
was Alva and his family called him Al.
· His first two
kids had the nicknames Dot & Dash.
· He set up his
first lab in his parent's basement at the age of 10.
· He was partially
deaf.
· His first
invention was an electric vote recorder.
· His 1093 patents
are the most on record.
· He said the
words to "Mary had a little lamb" as the first recorded voice on the
phonograph.
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