The Great American Inventor

In 1868 Edison, an independent inventor flourished with an acquiring reputation as a top inventor. In Newark, by creating and improving stock tickers, he managed and prepared a manufacturing shop. His profession comprised upon improving the achievement of the quadruplex telegraph, which sent two messages simultaneously in each direction on one wire. Here, he met Alexander Graham Bell and his associate Benjamin Franklin Bredding. Bredding was much more advanced in the techniques of telegraphy and electricity out of both Edison and Bell.Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, to Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. and Nancy Matthews Elliott. However, in 1854, the family was forced move to Port Huron, Michigan, where Edison was raised at the age of seven. After attending twelve weeks of public education in a schoolhouse, Edison’s teacher became so annoyed with his persistent questioning to which she remarked how “addled” or scrambled his brain was due to his giant forehead. Becoming aware of this incident, Edison’s mother, a school teacher, took quick action to withdraw him from this horror and took the responsibility of homeschooling him herself. As the seventh and last child in his family, Edison was his mother’s favorite to which she was instantly convinced his abnormally big head was a sign of intelligence. Edison’s father was also very encouraging to which he would reward Edison ten cents for every great classic he completed. This developed a serious desire in literature for Edison which gradually advanced. By the age of twelve, he consumed the entire World Dictionary of Science as well as many pieces from Practical Chemistry. This eventually led to his ever increasing fondness of Sciences and Physics to which at o...

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...nce for a whopping 40 hours. Similar to Menlo, in 1887, Edison built another laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey which remained the primary exploration facility for four years as the Edison lighting companies. Edison also returned to his former experiments which he had begun in 1879 on the electromagnetic separation of low-grade iron ores as well as the concentration of the gold ores. Edison collaborated with William Dickson through the years 1888 to 1893 to work on projecting a motion picture camera. During the 1890's, Edison furthered his capabilities by building a full-scale electronic plant to obtain the maximum iron ore possible with a magnetizing process. This however, became Edison's most prominent commercial catastrophe. By the time of his death in 1931, Edison had received 1,093 U.S. patents, a total that is incomparable with any other inventor up to date.