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What was Thomas Edison's contribution to mathematics?

Thomas Alva Edison used physics in many of his inventions, the light bulb, the large dynamo to make DC electricity, the phonograph, the 'moving pictures'.


When did Isaac Newton invent the light bulb?

I'm sorry to say that he didn't In 1878 Joseph Wilson Swan, an English physicist and Chemist received a patent for his invention and his house was the first in the world to be lit by electric light. See Swan's Wikipedia entry Thomas Edison,upon seeing the British patent,or open letter, made copies and publicised his work. Swan was keen to make money from his invention and decided set up a joint venture which became the 'Ediswan' company in 1883. I am sure the name Swan would not have figured in the name unless Edison was forced to retract his claim of prior invention. Edison did produce an efficient steam driven DC dynamo known as' Long Waisted Annies' to drive his lamps and famously lit the road out side his workshop. This the likely source of your error.


Why was thomas edisons discovery so important?

because if he didn't make the light bulb we would be living in the dark and the only source of light would be daylight


Did Thomas Edison really make over a 1000 inventions?

According to Paul Israel's biography of Thomas A. Edison, Edison received 1,093 U.S. patents. There by earning the title of history's most prolific inventor.


What were the pros and cons for thomas Edison?

Thomas Edison's inventive contributions to society are obviously his "pros," his most famous being the incandescent light bulb, electrographic vote recorder, the motion picture camera, the fluoroscope, and many more. As a result of some of his infamous inventions and experiments, it is hard to find "cons." I would definitely highlight Edison's "War of the Currents" against Westinghouse as a con. In this contest for economic superiority in marketing of each proposed current, Edison attempted to make Westinghouse's Alternating Current appear fatal, and often made public displays of this fatality by electrocuting animals with Alternating current. He electrocuted stray cats, dogs, unwanted cattle, and in one "sensational display," an elephant. These displays eventually led to the creation of the electric chair as a method of execution. This was actually one of the things Thomas Edison is know to have regretted in his lifetime.