Thomas Alva Edison

Life And
Accomplishments
By : Karwandi

Table Of Context
PREFACE
LIFE
INVENTIONS
ACOMPLISHMENTS
SOURCES

Preface
Thomas Alva Edison Was Rather an
inventor than a Scientist. With the creation
of the light bulb, electric generating
system, sound-recording device, motion
picture projector, and his observations on
the Edison Effect he helped to shape and
accelerate the modern society.

Life
1847

born on February 11th in Milan, Ohio.

7th and last child.
Parents were Samuel Edison Jr. & Nancy Elliot
Edison.
He only attended school for three months in
port Huron, Mich.
He began selling newspapers when he was
twelve years old.
He was known as Alva up until his 2nd
marriage.

Life
1854

moved to port Huron, Mich.

1863 he became an apprentice telegrapher.
1876 he built a laboratory and a machine shop .
1883 observed the Edison effect.
1931 died in West Orange on October 18.
He lived exactly 84 years, 8 months and 7 days.

Inventions

1872
Invented the motograph.
Invented the automatic telegraph system.
Invented duplex, quadruplex, sextuplex, and multiplex
telegraph system
Invented the carbon rheostat
1875
Discovered Etheric Force, and electric phenomenon that
is the foundation of wireless telegraphy.
1876
Invented the electric pen used for the first mimeographs.

Inventions

1877
Invented the carbon telephone transmitter, including the
microphone used in radio.
Invented his favorite creation, the phonograph.
1879
Discovered incandescent light.
Radically improved dynamos and generators
discovered a system of distribution, regulation, and
measurement of electric current switches, sockets, and
meters
1880
Discovered the Edison Effect, the fundamental principle
of electronics.

Inventions

1886
Invented the electric vote recorder
1891
Invented the motion picture camera
1896
Invented the fluoroscope
Invented the fluorescent lamp
1900
Invented the nickel-iron-alkaline storage battery
1914
Invented the electric safety miners lamp
Discovered the process for manufacturing synthetic
carbolic acid.

Accomplishments
Began

his career in 1863

Held a world record on 1093 patents
Created worlds first industrial research
laboratory.
Founded the motion picture industry.
In 1892 he was awarded the Albert Medal of the
Society of Arts of Great Britain
In 1928 he received the Congressional Gold
Medal

Thomas Edison
1847 -1931
Hell, there are no rules here
we're trying to accomplish something.
-Thomas Edison

Sources
*http://www.thomasedison.com
*The new Encyclopedia Britannica Vol. 17, 15th
edition, Macromedia, is knowledge in depth,
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc Chicago
Funk And Wallace New Encyclopedia Vol. 9, Funk
And Wallace, Inc.
Thomas A. Edison Benefactor of Mankind
Francis Treveman Miller