All about Thomas Edison

Answer 1

According to me he is the father of modern inventions..........

he invented electricity,gramophone,tape recorder,typewriter etc....

and his main invention was the modern electric bulb.....

he is my role model

by A Pavan

student of IIT-Kanpur

Answer 2

Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. He had three brothers named William, Pitt, and Samuel and four sisters named Marion, Callie, Harriet, and Eliza. William, Samuel, Callie, Harriet, and Eliza died because of harsh winters. His mothers name was Nancy and his fathers name was Samuel. Tom was very bright and was a curious little boy. Once Tom sat on eggs that were laid by his pet goose, Lulu, to try to hatch them. When Tom was seven he moved to Port Huron, Michigan, where his father worked as a dealer of lumber and grain. When Tom was young, he set up his own lab in his basement. At first he and his friend, Michael Oates, collected thirty empty bottles and pasted Poisonous signs on them. Over the next year, he saved his money from selling apples to buy enough chemicals to fill almost all his bottles. When he was older he got a job on a three car train selling newspapers, magazines, candy, and popcorn. Later, when the train was expanded to five cars to carry mail and more passengers, he set up his lab on the last car because he was on the train fifteen hours a day. He and his other friend, James Clancy, took turns selling the products and Tom used his lab when he wasnt working. While he was working on the train, the Civil war started. Tom thought information was old before the people heard it so Tom started his own newspaper. He called it the Weekly Herald. It was so popular that one day Tom had to run to catch the train. The conductor, Mr. Phillips, pulled him in by the ears. This is why Tom was partly deaf for the rest of his life. One day the train hit a bump and all the chemicals fell onto the floor and started a fire. Mr. Phillips threw him and his equipment off the train and took away his job. Tom later got the job back. Tom visited Mr. Mackenzie, who operated the telegraph wire. He and James had built one that connected Jamess house to Toms house. When he got there Mr. Mackenzies two and a half year old son, Jimmie, was sitting in the middle of the train tracks while a runaway train car was heading toward him! Tom quickly grabbed him and got out just as the car passed. A while later, Mr. Mackenzie gave him a job at the telegraph. When Tom turned 22, he went to New York City. There, with two friends, he started a firm of electrical engineers. He stayed until he could buy a workshop. Mary Stilwell was Toms first wife. She was sixteen years old when she married Thomas on December 25, 1871. They had Marion Edison, Thomas Edison Jr., and William Edison. Mary passed away in 1884. Tom later moved to Newark, New Jersey, and there he built a workshop and his first real laboratory. He started his career as an inventor. His workshop grew so he moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey, and opened another workshop and laboratory. Thomas married his second wife, Mina Miller, on February 24, 1886. They had Madeleine Edison, Charles Edison, and Theodore Edison. Tom invented the phonograph, the telephone, the camera, the vote recorder, the radio, and much more. He didnt invent the light bulb, but he made it last longer. He patented 1,001 inventions. Henry Ford, one of Toms friends, moved Toms workshops and laboratory to a place called Greenfield Village. He built a little street for five buildings that were brought from Menlo Park, where Tom had worked on the light bulb. At the end of the street was the same little brick station where the conductor pulled Tom aboard by his ears. Mr. Ford invited Tom and his friends to Greenfield Village for a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the light bulb. They arrived on a train like the one Tom had worked on. After looking at Greenfield Village, they all had a grand dinner, with Tom and his wife at the seats of honor. It was completely dark after they ate. Thousands of people across America were quiet in the dark and listened on their radios. Tom told his friend, Francis Jehl, to put the light on. When Mr. Jehl connected the light bulb to the circuit, the room was bright. When the announcer on the radio said the lights were on, thousands of people across America turned their own lights on. This was the Golden Jubilee of the light bulb. Tom died on October 18, 1931 at age 84.

Answer 3

He applied for hundreds of patents as an inventor ~ Apex

Answer 4

Thomas Edison was one of the greatest inventors.

Answer 5

He was an inventor.

Answer 6

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