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Thomas Edison

THOMAS EDISON

1847 - 1931

The multi-skilled inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, in the United States. He spent three months in formal education, after which his teacher considered him a mentally retarded boy.

Edison invented the first invention, which is registered to count the votes of voters in the elections when he was in the twenty-first, but this invention did not sell, and then Edison focused his inventions on the things that he expected to be sold immediately in the market.

After a short time, he invented a system for writing stock prices telegraphically, and he sold it for forty thousand dollars, which was a huge amount in those days, and this invention followed. Other inventions Edison became rich and famous. It is possible that the phonograph or (gramophone) is his most creative and original invention, and he recorded this invention in the year 1877. As for the important practical invention for the world, it is his invention of the incandescent lamp in 1879.

Edison was not the first inventor of the electric lamp. In Paris, arc lamps were used shortly before in street lighting, but Edison's lamp made electric lighting available in homes, not only in the streets.

In 1882, his company began producing electricity for homes in the city
New York The use of electricity spread rapidly throughout the world after that.

And by establishing the electrical distribution company that used to deliver electrical power to private homes, we find Edison laying the foundation for a huge new industry that includes household electrical appliances from televisions to washing machines.

Thomas Edison has also contributed to the development of motion picture cameras and tools for displaying images on the screen. He made improvements in the telephone (telephone), as well as the telegraph, the printing machine, and among his inventions were a machine for dictating speech to a person, a machine for copying messages, and a stored footnote battery. On top of all the inventions mentioned, there are more than a thousand separate inventions, and this total is almost unbelievable.

That one of the reasons that made Edison so productive fertility is that he established a research laboratory in (Minol Park) in New Jersey, where he used this laboratory was the first pioneer of major research laboratories established by major industrial institutions later. Edison was not only an inventor, he also worked in several industrial companies and established other industrial companies, which later became called the company a number of qualified general electrical assistants.

Edison also contributed in 1882 to the discovery of an electrical phenomenon, which is that an electric current can be transmitted between two wires that are not connected to each other while they are in a vacuum. This phenomenon is called (the Edison phenomenon), which led to the development of the vacuum tube and the establishment of electronic industries. Edison was complaining of heavy hearing, but his amazing ability to work compensated for this obstacle.

Edison married twice, his first wife died when she was young, and he had three children from each wife, and he died in (West Orange) in New Jersey. 1931.

Everyone agrees with the author that Edison was of superior talents and that he was the greatest inventor who ever lived on this earth.