Thomas Edison

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Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. His parents were Sam and Nancy Edison. His father Samuel Edison Jr. was a rebel against the Royal Canadian Government and high tempered and stubborn like his father Samuel Edison Sr. Thomas Edison's mother was the daughter of a Baptist Minister and was the base in the Edison family. She also has the same temper as her husband which countered Samuel Edison Jr. They were married in 1828 in Vienna, Ontario. At the age of 14 Thomas Edison was pretty much interested in Electricity or any sort of thing involving electricity. He worked patiently as a newsboy going from city of Detroit and back. They moved from Milan to Port Huron when Thomas Edison was nine years old. He worked as a newsboy on the Grand Truck Railway in Canada. His life as a newsboy expired as he moved on as the telegraph operator of the Grand Truck Railway. Thomas Edison the inventor made name for himself when he started to work as a telegraph operator in the cities of Central Western States. Here he began studying and experimenting how to improve the telegraph apparatus. By 1868, he stated to paten his first invention the vote recorder. After his first invention he started to invent other useful things that will change the world. In the end Thomas Edison has patented 1,093 inventions where he was nicknamed "The Wizard of Menlo Park."

"He believed in hard work, sometimes working twenty hours a day. Edison was quoted as saying, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." In tribute to this important American, electric lights in the United States were dimmed for one minute on October 21, 1931, a few days after his death." (http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/edison.html)

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...t qualified technicians varying from 45 to 60 people to assist him accomplished his goal. For Edison and the technicians, the sky was the limit because all goes to what they could think of without any regard of expense. By August 24, 1891, Edison applied for patent on the motion picture camera. After inventing the camera, Edison improved the motion picture camera by inventing the Projection Kinetoscope and adding sound to his invention. Edison even produced a film called "The Great Train Robbery"in 1903.

References

The Thomas Edison Album: A Pictorial Biography of Thomas Alva Edison, Copyright 1969 - Superior Publishing Company, Seattle, Washington.

Josephson, Matthew, Edison; Mcgraw Hill Book Company, Inc. New York, Toronto, London, Copyright 1959.

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/edison.html The Wizard of Menlo Park: the Franklin Institute Online

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