Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio and showed an early interest in science through his work as a telegraph operator as a young teenager. His first major invention was the phonograph in 1877, a machine that could record and play back sound. While he did not invent the light bulb, Edison's long-lasting incandescent light bulb design of 1879 proved popular and helped power the new electric grid. Known for his focus and determination as an inventor, Edison received widespread recognition and established major research labs where he and his employees patented many inventions.
Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio and showed an early interest in science through his work as a telegraph operator as a young teenager. His first major invention was the phonograph in 1877, a machine that could record and play back sound. While he did not invent the light bulb, Edison's long-lasting incandescent light bulb design of 1879 proved popular and helped power the new electric grid. Known for his focus and determination as an inventor, Edison received widespread recognition and established major research labs where he and his employees patented many inventions.
Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio and showed an early interest in science through his work as a telegraph operator as a young teenager. His first major invention was the phonograph in 1877, a machine that could record and play back sound. While he did not invent the light bulb, Edison's long-lasting incandescent light bulb design of 1879 proved popular and helped power the new electric grid. Known for his focus and determination as an inventor, Edison received widespread recognition and established major research labs where he and his employees patented many inventions.
Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio and showed an early interest in science through his work as a telegraph operator as a young teenager. His first major invention was the phonograph in 1877, a machine that could record and play back sound. While he did not invent the light bulb, Edison's long-lasting incandescent light bulb design of 1879 proved popular and helped power the new electric grid. Known for his focus and determination as an inventor, Edison received widespread recognition and established major research labs where he and his employees patented many inventions.
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Thomas Alva Edison
Done by: Khine May Lin
When was Thomas Alva Edison born?
Thomas Alva Edison was born on 11th
February 1847 in a village called Milan in Ohio, which is in the United States of America. Thomas Edison’s childhood & his education He attended his school for three months. His mother continued is education. Teaching him reading, writing and arithmetic. She also read to him from well- known English writer.
Edison earned a job selling newspaper, apples and
candies in on the Detroit and Port Huron branch of Grand Trunk Railroad when he was only 12 years old. He soon sell newspaper which he printed and edited. My mother was the making of me.
Thomas Edison’s mother
Thomas Edison saves a child
Thomas Edison got his first job by accident when he saved a 3
year-old boy from being hit by a train. The boy’s father was so grateful that he gave Thomas a job as a telegraph operator! For next four years, he travelled thousand of miles as a telegrapher. Telegraph machine
What is it? A telegraph operator is a person who operates a telephone switchboard. Punched tape Thomas Edison’s First Important Invention Thomas Edison’s first important invention was completed in 1877 when he was thirty. It made him famous.
This invention was called the phonograph. It was a
machine that recorded sound using a needle moving on tinfoil. Then, it could play the sound back through a large horn.
Thomas recorded himself
saying the nursery rhyme ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’ and was delighted when the phonograph played it back. Thomas Edison and His Family Thomas Edison’s second wife was named Mina.
Thomas had six children altogether.
His daughter Madeleine was
interested in science, but it wasn’t easy for a woman to have a career in science at the time.
His son Theodore did study science and
created some inventions of his own. Thomas Edison and the Electric Light Bulb Thomas Edison is most well- known for his work on the electric light bulb.
Other people had started developing lights that worked by
electricity.
He was not the first person to produced light bulb. He developed
this incandescent lamp or light bulb, in 1879. But his design proved popular because it gave off a moderate amount of light and lasted a long time. Thomas Edison:The great inventor
He was well known for his focus and determination.
He was remembered as the great inventor.
He always fascinated by how things worked and I came up
