With 1,093 patents to his name, Thomas Edison remains the most prolific inventor in American history.
His best-known invention was the first commercially viable incandescent light bulb. But much of what afforded Edison's light bulb its success was his brilliance in creating equally viable electrical systems - the widespread systems on which electricity is distributed throughout our communities.
Like his good friend Henry Ford, Edison had an uncanny knack for recognizing a consumer need, then creating a product to satisfy that need. It was a gift that revealed itself in his youth. Years later, he would take the same approach when founded his state-of-the-art research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Often called an "invention factory," the Menlo Park laboratory was an audacious undertaking. Edison's goal was to create at least one small invention every week and a large, society-changing one every six months.
It was a point of view he developed early in his career. Edison's very first patent was for a vote recording machine. It was a clever device that would radically reduce the time it took to tabulate votes. More important, it was accurate and promised to eliminate the possibility of vote fraud.
But as Edison soon learned, 19th century politicians weren't enthusiastic about a machine that would ensure honest ballot-counting. As a result, there was absolutely no market for his brilliant invention.
Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison. January 3, 2014. <http://www.nndb.com/people/333/000022267/> Thomas Alva Edison is one of the most famous American scientists in history. Edison is most known for his inventions like, the phonograph, the motion picture camera and the light bulb! Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was the last of seven children of his parents, Samual and Nancy Edison. When Edison was a kid, he only had three years…
1302 15 June 2015 Thomas Edison When one hears the name Thomas Edison, one automatically thinks of the light bulb, but the truth is that he did not invent the light bulb. Thomas Edison was the first person to use electricity to invent a long lasting incandescent light bulb. People were amazed with Edison's invention because up until then the light bulb, when lit, would only last a few minutes, but his first successful bulb invention lasted more than thirteen hours. Thomas Edison was a great and successful…
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radio? Along with over 275 other patents, Nikola Tesla paved the way for new electrical inventions in the late 1800s. Competing with Thomas Edison as to who was the most revolutionary electrical inventor of the industrial revolution and beyond, Tesla was more known for his work then what came out of it financially. Although the money wasn’t there for Tesla, he and Edison changed the way the world looked at things. Nikola Tesla changed the world in a positive way where without him, we wouldn’t have things…
particle sciences, while the light bulb has come a very long way in the advancement of energy conservation and efficiency. The incandescent light bulb, which many inaccurate accounts of history credit Thomas Edison with the invention of, actually had several inventors who built models of it before Edison. In 1809, Humphry Davy invented the first electric light bulb. He connected wires to a battery, and subsequently connected a strip of charcoal to the opposite ends of the wires. Miraculously, the tiny…
Manufacturing Carbons”, an improved method for the production of carbon filaments used in light bulbs. He also traveled to different U.S. cited supervising the installation and production of Maxim equipment. In 1884 Latimer was invited to work for Thomas Edison in New York. Latimer’s work for…
There’s no debating that everyone sleeps and naps; however, only a few individuals take the time to understand the importance of sleep. In 1998, an English teacher known as Anton Anderson took sleeping and napping to the next level. With intentions to help the waves of weary teens, he developed a club that permits students to nap for 20 minutes in school! One may wonder why napping is worth wasting 20 minutes of learning. Various studies have shown that sleeping and napping are important because…
working for Edison |[pic] | | |Tesla claims he was offered US$50,000 (~ US$1.1 million in 2007, adjusted for inflation) if | | | |he redesigned Edison's inefficient motor and generators, making an improvement in both | | | |service and economy. In 1885 when tesla inquired about the payment for his work, Edison |…
revolution and was soon followed by other big names in early film making. Names like William Friese-Greene the inventor of the ‘chronophotographic’ camera, or Thomas Edison the inventor of the first movie viewing system called Kinetoscope. William’s design ended up to be unreliable though, and did not make much of an impression on history. Thomas Edison eventually perfected his system and named his new movie camera the Kinetograph. The first Kinetoscope required someone to insert a coin and then looking…