Thomas Alva Edison biography
Bad school grades makes his mother to let him out of school adn his mother also works as a teacher, and eventually taught him at home. At home, Thomas learned to read scientific books mature and begin to conduct various scientific experiments themselves.
At the age of 12 years, Thomas already has a small chemical laboratory in the basement of his father's house. A year later, he managed to make a telegraph that even shape and style simple and primitive but was able to function. At that age he also has worked as a newspaper seller, fruits and sweets on the train for a few years.
In 1861, civil war broke out between the northern and southern states. Thomas then had the idea to publish the first newspaper on the train which is useful to meet people's need for information. He bought an old printing equipment for US $ 12, and make their own newspaper called Weekly Herald. The newspaper sold, he pocketed $ 400 in a day.
At the age of 15 years, Thomas Alva Edison has mastered the basic principles acceptable job after working as one in a thousand telegraph operator in charge of sending business news to all the leading firms in New York. That's when he had the chance to, developing, improving speed and efficiency in sending and receiving Morse code and practice tool designed experiments to improve the tool.
At the age of 16 years, after he worked in various offices of the telegraph, he arrived at the first discovery of the so-called automatic repeater (automatic repeater) which can deliver a signal between an empty station. Thus allowing people to easily and accurately translate Morse code without any interruption.
Thomas had twice married. First, in 1871 by a woman named Mary Stilwell and ended in 1884, and the second along the Mina Miller began in 1886 hinga end of his life. He was blessed with 6 children namely Marion Estelle Edison (1873-1965), Thomas Alva Edison Jr. (1876-1935), William Leslie Edison (1878-1937), Madeleine Edison (1888-1979), Charles Edison (1890-1969), and Theodore Miller Edison (1898-1992).
List of Invention Thomas
In 1870 he invented the telegraph machine that is better than the previous telegraph machine. The machines can print the messages on top of a long strip of paper. The money generated from the discovery was enough to establish his own company. In 1874 he moved to Menlo Park, New Jersey. There he made a great scientific workshop and the first in the world. After that he made many important discoveries.
In the year 1877 he found the phonograph. This year Thomas realized that the importance of a light source for human life, later he occupied himself with the problem at that time to the attention of many researchers: incandescent lamps. Therefore Edison effort the energy and time, and spend the money as much as 40,000 dollars in the past two years to make a light bulb experiment.
In total there are about 6000 materials were spent to make a light bulb, before finally finding the first electric incandescent lamp that could light along 40 hours on 21 October 1879. Tidah only that, in the same year Thomas also find a projector. In 1882, for the first time Thomas installing electric lights in the streets and houses as far as one kilometer in New York. In 1890. H is founder of the General Electric company.
Thomas referred to as one of the most prolific creators of his time, holds the record 1,093 patents in his name. Most inventions are not original, but it is a development and an improvement over previous inventions. It also helps a lot in the field of defense of the United States government. Some of his research include:
• detecting aircraft
• Destroying periscope with machine guns
• Detect submarines
• Stopping torpedoes with a net halt
• Raising the strength of the torpedo
• Camouflage ship and others.
There are Thomas Alva Edison’s Words of Wisdom: “Genius is 1 percent of inspiration and 99 percent perspiration”, “I have not failed. I just found 10,000 ways that do not work”, “I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt is a step forward”, “Losers are those who give up and do not realize that they were close to success before giving up”, “Most of the failures of life comes from people who do not realize how close they were to success already when they decide to give up”, “Luck is something that happens when opportunity meets with preparation”.
Thomas Alva Edison died on October 18, 1931 at the age of 84 years. His name is remembered as the most prolific inventor in his time. There are 1,093 patents in his name. He died at the age of 84, on the anniversary of his discovery that fenomal, namely incandescent lamps. In 1928 he received an award of a special medal of the United States Congress.
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