Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison created the phonograph by experimenting with methods for recording sound on tinfoil-wrapped cylinders. He discovered that sound waves could be etched onto the tinfoil and played back by a needle vibrating to reproduce the sound. Edison patented the phonograph in 1878 with the intention of creating a device for both recording and playing back sound.

Edison played a critical role in introducing the modern age of electricity. He was one of the first inventors to use the rules of mass production and large teamwork to make an invention, and so he is often acknowledged with the making of the first industrial research laboratory. Thomas Edison was known for the many inventions he had created like: The Carbon Telephone Transmitter, Electric Light, Electric Power Distribution, Motion Picture Camera, Research Laboratory, Alkaline Battery, First Electric Railroad, Phonograph and many more. He was also known for his failures such as the fluoroscope. He almost lost his own sight trying to create that invention, unfortunately his assistant Clarence Dally lost his life due to being exposed to a toxic dose of radiation. The American Society considered Edison to be one of the most successful in history. Thomas Edison is an important individual in history, because he played a critical role in introducing the modern age of electricity. The American Society considered Edison to be one of the most successful in history. He was granted 1,093 patents in the United States, which was the most patents ever granted to anyone in history.

Thomas Edison did not commit suicide, he died at his home in West Orange, New Jersey on the 18th October 1931 aged 84.

Edison did not invent the battery. About 1875-1880, his assistant Nikola Tesla made the first practical long lasting storage battery improving on over 100 years of prior work.

Thomas Edison had 20 family members!

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Edison was an inventer and business executive, and thus he did not do much in the way of basic science. His research labs were the first to study the fact that a heated filament gave off free electrons -- now known as the "Edison Effect." The study of thermionic emissions like this would be under the realm of "physics."

Various sites speculate over the exact date of his death, but most agree that it was on October 21st (or the 18th) 1931.

I have a copy of a telegram from Edison's attending physician, Dr. Hubert S. Howe stating that Thomas Alva Edison quietly passed away at 3:24 am on October 18, 1931. He died at his home, now part of the National Park Service, in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, NJ.

Thomas Edison worked with an assistant. William Joseph Hammer was a consulting electrical engineer and started working with Edison in 1879.

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he was homeschooled

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Thomas Edison was famous because he invented things that scientist already invented.

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i disliked thomas Edison because he was a prick

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Thomas Edison was an inventor.

Here's an idea of how the changeover went...In 1907, only 8 percent of American homes had electricity, but by 1925, more than half of them did. 90 percent of urban families had electricity by 1930...but there was still some resentment of the "new" utilities reflected in vaudeville even then, and vaudeville was still alive.

The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison.

I Think Thomas Edison had an IQ of 180 (or at least somewhwere around that number). It's kind of hard to tell what Thomas Edison's IQ really was, so If anybody thinks they know Thomas Edison's IQ, by all means, add it in.

I believe that Thomas was 24 when he got married

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he was an inventor (he invented many things)

Edison did not invent the movie projector.

Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat have the patent for the original motion picture projector...The Phantoscope, initially designed by Jenkins alone.

The projector was sold to Edison whom re-named it the Vitascope and began using it to show motion pictures in a NYC theater in 1896. For marketing purposes, Edison put his name on it. But, he did not invent the projector.

There were various other devises and inventors that made pictures move in a more primitive fashion. Jenkins' Phantoscope, which used flim and electric light, is considered to be the one that ushered in the modern era of motion picture projection, with design and principles still used today.