Thomas Edison

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Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) was an American entrepreneur and businessman who has been dubbed America's best Inventor and entrepreneur.

He invented several devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.

These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, useful electric light bulb, have had a major influence on the modern industrialized world.

He was one of the first chemists to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with a variety of researchers and workers.

He founded the first industrial research laboratory in the Midwest; early in his career, he served as a telegraph operator, which spawned some of his earliest inventions.

He established his first laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where many of his early inventions were invented.

He later founded a botanic laboratory in Fort Myers, Florida, in collaboration with businessmen Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, and a laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, which featured the country's first film studio, the Black Maria.

He was a prolific entrepreneur, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as patents in other nations.

Edison married twice and fathered six children.

He died of diabetes in 1931 as a result of the disease.

Early life

Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, but after the family moved there in 1854, he grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. He was Samuel Ogden Edison Jr.'s sixth and final child (1804–1896) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871), born in Chenango County, New York). His patrilineal ancestor lineage was Dutch by way of New Jersey; the surname had originally been "Edeson." In 1784, his grandfather, John Edeson, left New Jersey for Nova Scotia, and his father fled to Vienna, Ontario, following his 1837 involvement in the Rebellion.

Edison's mother, who used to be a school teacher, taught reading, writing, and arithmetic. He attended school for just a few months. However, one biographer described him as a very curious boy who learned the majority of things by reading on his own. He became fascinated with technology as a child and spent hours at home doing experiments.

Edison began having hearing problems at the age of 12. His deafness has been traced back to a bout of scarlet fever in childhood and persistent untreated middle-ear infections. He later concocted elaborate myths about his deafness. Edison was reportedly listening to a music player or piano by pressing his teeth into the wood to absorb the sound waves into his skull, as he was completely deaf in one ear and barely hearing in the other. Edison believed that his hearing loss helped him to avoid distraction and concentrate more effectively on his work as he aged. He may have had ADHD, according to modern-day historians and medical experts.

It's known that early in his career, he enrolled in a Chemistry course at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art to support his work on a new telegraphy system with Charles Batchelor. This seems to have been his first enrollment in courses at a school of higher learning.

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Early career

Thomas Edison began his career as a news butcher, selling newspapers, candy, and vegetables on the rails running from Port Huron to Detroit. By age 13, he had made $50-a-week profit, the bulk of which went to purchasing electronics for electrical and chemical experiments. He saved 3-year-old Jimmie MacKenzie from being struck by a runaway train at age 15, 1862. Jimmie's father, station agent J. U. MacKenzie of Mount Clemens, Michigan, was so grateful that Edison was trained as a telegraph operator that he was able to train Edison as a telegraph operator that he was so grateful. Stratford Junction, Ontario, was Edison's first telegraphy position away from Port Huron. After being arrested for a near crash of two trains, he also studied qualitative research and conducted chemical experiments until he quit the job rather than being fired.

Edison obtained the exclusive right to sell newspapers on the road, and with the assistance of four assistants, he created the Grand Trunk Herald, which he sold with his other papers. This was the start of Edison's long line of entrepreneurial ventures as he discovered his gift as a businessman. Ultimately, his entrepreneurship was instrumental in the establishment of some 14 firms, including GM, which is now one of the world's largest publicly traded companies.

Edison, who was 19 years old at the time of 19, moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he worked with the Associated Press bureau news wire. Edison requested the night shift, giving him ample time to enjoy his two favorite pastimes, reading and experimenting. The former preoccupation cost him his career eventually. He was working with a lead-acid battery one night in 1867 when he spat sulfuric acid onto the ground. It went between the floorboards and his boss's desk below. Edison was shot in the morning.

His first patent was for an electric vote recorder, U.S. Patent 90,646, which was issued on June 1, 1869. Edison then migrated to New York City shortly after finding little demand for the machine. Franklin Leonard Pope, a fellow telegrapher and entrepreneur who allowed the impoverished youth to live and work in the basement of his Elizabeth, New Jersey, home, while Edison worked for Samuel Laws at the Gold Indicator Company. In October 1869, Pope and Edison founded their own business, focusing on electrical engineers and Inventors. In 1874, Edison began creating a multix telegraphic device, which could send two messages at once.

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