Matt VanEtten VanEtten 1 Mr. MurfeeEnglish III Dec. 13 1999 Thomas Edison: The man of a thousand inventions Thomas Edison changed America in a very big way, He held patents for over a 1000 inventions. His most important one was the electric lamp.
Thomas Edison has made America a better place to live. Born In Milan, Ohio Thomas Edison was an American genius of technology, His most known inventions were the electric lamp the phonograph and the motion picture projector. Edison set up a in his fathers basement when he was just 10 years old. At the age of 12 he began selling news papers and candy on the trains between Port Huron and detroit.
From 1862 to 1868 he worked as a roving telegrapher. He obtained a position as a night operator for Western Union telegraph company in 1868. In 1869 he decided to give up his career as a telegrapher to pursue inventing and. He moved to New York City and within a year he was successful enough to establish a workshop in Newark, N.
J. During this time he produced the Edison stock printer and other printing telegraphs. In 1876 he gave up his VanEtten 2 telegraph factory and set up a research lab. in nearby Menlo Park. There with the help of highly talented he achieved his greatest success (the electric lamp).
In 1877 he invented the phonograph. he began work on the light bulb in 1878 and demonstrated his lamp in 1879. In 1883 he accidentally discovered the ‘Edison effect’ which later became the basis of the electron tube. He also perfected motion picture equipment.
The Essay on The Electric Light
On October 22, 1879 Thomas Edison created the electric light or what we know of it today as the light bulb. To make a statement like this that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb is both a huge hyperbole and a huge understatement all at the same time. A more correct view is that he perfected a practical light bulb and that his real plan and accomplishment was the invention of an electrical ...
(Britannica p. 370-371) Edison executed the first of his 1, 093 successful U. S. patent applications (the most by anyone ever. ) on 13 October 1868, at the age of 21. Which was the Electro graphic Vote-Recorder.
(Internet: Edison U. S Patents) Though Edison invented all of the inventions he did he was not a good student and Edison also had a hearing problem. (Internet: A Thousand Inventions) In August of 1931, he took a turn for the worse, and it was clear to everyone that he was slipping away. Someone asked him if he had thought about a life hereafter, and he replied, ‘It does not matter.
No one knows.’ He passed away early Sunday morning, October 18, 1931. (Internet: Edison) Thomas Edison will always be as the man who invented the light but and to me the man who made VanEtten 3 America a better place to live.
