Thomas Edison invented many machines and products that changed the way the world lived. He had dedication and perserverance and pushed through regardless of his failures, to invent some of the greatest inventions the world has ever seen. Thomas Edison truly was a gifted inventor. His machines provided an easier daily lifestyle for people, and his works benefitted many all over the world. On February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, the world was gifted with the birth of one of the most talented and popular inventors ever, Thomas Alva Edison. "He was the seventh and last child born to Samuel Edison Jr. and Nancy Elliott Edison, and would be one of four to survive to adulthood. Thomas Edison received little formal education, and left school in …show more content…
He was gifted with the character of determination, and throughout his career he had many failures time and time again, but it certainly did not stop him from figuring out a way to make his creations work. With hard work and a lot of dedication, Thomas A. Edison became one of the most popular inventors of his time and went on to create some of the greatest inventions ever. Thomas' inventions were game changers. During his career, he received over a thousand patents for his works. The electrographic vote recorder, the automatic telegraph, the electric pen, the practical light bulb, the kinetographic camera, and others such as the phonograph, the carbon telephone, , the electric lighting system, the electric generator, the motograph (loud speaking telephone), fuel cell technology, the universal stock printer, the ore separator, the alkaline battery, and an improved version of cement, were all Thomas Edison's creations or improvements of other inventor's designs. He had a lot of interest in electrical as it is easy to see. The light bulb is probably the Seaver 2 work that Thomas Edison is most well known for. Many scientists before him tried to …show more content…
"Thomas Edison’s serious incandescent light bulb research began in 1878, filing his first patent later that year…'Improvement In Electric Lights' in October 1878. His experiments involved the fabrication and testing of many different metal filaments, including platinum.
Platinum was very difficult to work with, and prone to being weakened by heating and oxygen attack. In addition, platinum was expensive, and too low in resistance; which would require heavy copper conductors in Edison’s electric distribution system he was designing to supply commercial installations of his bulbs. This system would later become the model for our modern electric utility power distribution system of today. Edison then resorted to a carbon-based, high- resistance, filament. One year later in October 1879 Edison successfully tested a filament that burned for 13.5 hours. Continuing to improve his design, by November 1879, he filed for a
U.S. patent for an electric lamp using 'a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected … to platina contact wires'. The filament was made from a piece of carbonized thread. By New
Year’s he was demonstrating lamps using carbonized cardboard filaments to large crowds at
Instead, most of his inventions were made using electrical energy. In 1878 he dedicated almost two and half years of his life to invent incandescent electric lighting. He was granted a patent for the famous light bulb in 1880. That same year he founded the Edison Illuminating Company and then left Menlo Park to travel around the globe. He visited different cities, offering his consultation services to local union councils and electrical companies on how to implement electrical systems.
Long ago, Thomas Edison lived, but today remembered by making lives better. When everyone else gave
Thomas Edison an American inventor one of the greatest inventor of all time, he created many things but one of his masterpieces was the light bulb.
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So he had to face the fact he had to invent something that can handle so much energy without that much copper and wire.so that was suitable for small houses to use the light bulb. As many times they took to make the light bulb was tested more than 3,000 times. He also had tested many metals to make the light bulb. He also tested more than 4,000 plants to handle the filament material. While he had tried to figure that out he had extra help with a group of scientists he was working with for 40 years to make the light bulb
He worked with George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla during the late 19th century so bring electric lighting into houses and offices. Incandescent lighting is when light is produced by heat. Around 1870s, there was already lighting called arc lighting. Those were placed in large indoor rooms such as a stage and outdoors in streetlight lamps. Arc light was proven to be impractical in housing or offices. During the 1879, Edison did research in an entire electrical systems which would deal with a generator, a distribution system, and a light bulb. His main focus though was the light bulb. It needed to be strong enough so that the heat wouldn 't cause the light bulb to explode. He worked with carbon filaments which burned inside a glass globe as electricity flowed through the filaments. During the same year, Edison worked with Francis Upton to make a generator that produced direct current, which is also what Edison is very well known for. Direct current was used for incandescent
This paper will be an effort to explain about Thomas Alva Edison and his life before the 1900s. Thomas Edison was an American inventor, he was considered the most prolific inventor in American history and one of America’s leading businessmen who came from humble beginnings to work as an inventor of major technology. He was also giving public recognition as a participant in the production of helping build America’s economy during the nation’s vulnerable early years. Thomas Edison was born on February 11th, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was the last and youngest out of seven children of Samuel Edison Jr., an exiled political activist, and Nancy Elliott Edison, an accomplished school teacher. When he was seven years old he suffered from scarlet fever
All throughout American history there has many intelligent individuals that have played significant role in our society. I believe Thomas Edison has been one of the most influential people. He was an American inventor who is considered one of America’s leading businessman. People today credit him for helping to build America’s economy during the nation’s vulnerable early years. Thomas had a very good childhood and was a very hard worker as a teenager. He invented the universal stock printer and he perfected the lightbulb.
Thomas Alva Edison was considered one of the greatest inventors and industrial leader. He had over 1000 inventions but none greater then his ability to develop a system that would provide people with a wide safe stable and efficient light and power. This also lead to other countries such as Europe and South America to follow this wonderful invention that modernized the world forever.
Edison searched for the proper "filament" or wire, that would give good light when electricity flowed through it. He sent people to the jungles of the Amazon and forests of Japan in his search for a perfect filament material. He tested over 6,000 vegetable growths (baywood, boxwood, hickory, cedar, flax, bamboo) as filament material.
Thomas Edison is widely regarded as one of the most influential inventors and innovators of the Twentieth Century. Edison’s efforts ushered in a new era of technology; a world in which electricity would be harnessed and made to bow before man’s will. Walter Lippman wrote, “It is impossible to measure the importance of Edison by adding up the specific inventions with which his name is associated” (qtd. in Baldwin 409). Edison’s decades long career was a synergistic melding of his success as an inventor and his prowess as a promoter and businessman. He exemplified the ideals of intelligence married to hard work and perseverance. He forever changed the landscape of American invention and the limits of technological change (Baldwin 409).
Nikola Tesla is regarded as one of the most brilliant inventors in history. His work provided the basis for the modern alternating current power system, as well as having developed both radio and the fluorescent light bulb. He worked with Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, among others. He was also widely misunderstood by his peers and the public at large.
He also built the Edison Electric Light Company to find a way to use electricity to light the incandescent bulbs. In 1882, Thomas Edison used his incandescent bulb in all the office buildings and houses on the Pearl Street. Many people came to the Pearl Street to see the all of the buildings and houses are light with electricity. This was a great achievement in Thomas Edison’s life. Thomas Edison became a rich and famous person.
Thomas Edison was another intelligent scientist that used the findings of Ben Franklin to invent a contraption called the light bulb. At the time of Edison?s findings, there was only gas and cand...
Thomas Alva Edison is a very well-known American inventor. He invented about 1093 devices that influenced us greatly, such as light bulb, microphone, telephone receiver, universal stock ticker, phonograph, kinetoscope (used to view moving pictures), storage battery, electric pen, and mimeograph. Edison also improved many other existing devices as well. In the period from 1878 to 1880, Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp. Edison and his associates worked on at least three thousand different theories to develop an efficient incandescent lamp. In 1878, Edison built his first high resistance incandescent electric light. Incandescent lamps make light by using electricity to heat a thin strip of material (called a filament) until it gets hot enough to glow. Many inventors had tried to perfect incandescent lamps to "sub-divide" electric light or make it smaller and weaker than it was in the existing arc lamps, which were too bright to be used for small spaces such as the rooms of a house.Edison's lamp would consist of a filament ho...