Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 who developed many pioneering inventions in electricity, communication, and film. Some of his most famous inventions include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the first practical incandescent light bulb. He established the first industrial research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey where he worked with teams of researchers to apply science to invention. With over 1,000 patents, Edison was the most prolific inventor in American history before passing away in 1931 from complications of diabetes.
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 who developed many pioneering inventions in electricity, communication, and film. Some of his most famous inventions include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the first practical incandescent light bulb. He established the first industrial research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey where he worked with teams of researchers to apply science to invention. With over 1,000 patents, Edison was the most prolific inventor in American history before passing away in 1931 from complications of diabetes.
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 who developed many pioneering inventions in electricity, communication, and film. Some of his most famous inventions include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the first practical incandescent light bulb. He established the first industrial research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey where he worked with teams of researchers to apply science to invention. With over 1,000 patents, Edison was the most prolific inventor in American history before passing away in 1931 from complications of diabetes.
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 who developed many pioneering inventions in electricity, communication, and film. Some of his most famous inventions include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the first practical incandescent light bulb. He established the first industrial research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey where he worked with teams of researchers to apply science to invention. With over 1,000 patents, Edison was the most prolific inventor in American history before passing away in 1931 from complications of diabetes.
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THOMAS EDISON
Thomas Alva Edison, born on February 11,1847
and deceased on October 18, 1931,was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. He established the first industrial research laboratory.
Edison was raised in the American Midwest. Early
in his career he worked as a telegraph operator, which inspired some of his earliest inventions. In 1876, he established his first laboratory facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where many of his early inventions were developed. He later established a botanical laboratory in Fort Myers, Florida, in collaboration with businessmen Henry Ford and Harvey S. Firestone, and a laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, that featured the world's first film studio, the Black Maria. With 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as patents in other countries, Edison is regarded as the most prolific inventor in American history. Edison married twice and fathered six children. He died in 1931 of complications of diabetes.
The incandescent electric light had been the despair of inventors for 50 years, but Edison’s past achievements commanded respect for his boastful prophecy. Thus, a syndicate of leading financiers, including J.P. Morgan and the Vanderbilts, established the Edison Electric Light Company and advanced him $30,000 for research and development. Edison proposed to connect his lights in a parallel circuit by subdividing the current, so that, unlike arc lights, which were connected in a series circuit, the failure of one lightbulb would not cause a whole circuit to fail. Some eminent scientists predicted that such a circuit could never be feasible, but their findings were based on systems of lamps with low resistance—the only successful type of electric light at the time. Edison, however, determined that a bulb with high resistance would serve his purpose, and he began searching for a suitable one.
