Thomas Edison: The Father Of Inventions

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Thomas Edison, The Father of Inventions
In modern day, most people are too focused on phones and computers. However, if someone did not discover the first step of new technology most of modern electronics would not exist. The inventor Thomas Alva Edison first started on the phonograph, which could record sound, and made most electricity accessible in urban areas besides the city. Without any electricity connecting to the urban areas, many would be still in darkness, only to be brightened by a few single candlelights. In fact, many of the new electronics that are created today would not be here at all, as they would have to figure out the way to display images and to record and make sounds. As urbanization and population increased in the early 1920’s, Thomas Edison responded by …show more content…

On September 16, 1878, he announced in the article of a New York Sun “With the process I have discovered, I can produce a thousand- aye, ten thousand-[lamps] from one machine. Indeed the number may be said to be infinite.” He also claimed that he had accomplished this goal by as entirely different process (Israel, 168). It was a plan to replace gaslight with generating electricity that was distributed underground, similar to gas light 's process (Israel, 168-167). With the plan Edison was going, he would be able to light up the whole city using one single generator. During the creation of the generator, he proceed to experiment for a proper form for his light bulbs. He improved his light bulbs to reduce radiating surface and increase resistance by using a very thin filaments of wire wound in tight spirals, coating with for no conducting to avoid the spirals touching each other and short circuiting (Israel, 172). With the advances of his work, Thomas Edison manages to successfully design the electric generator which would help spread to suburbs and light up the state and to the

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