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| Affiliation | Independent |
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| Name | Thomas Alva Edison |
| Address | 211 Main St
West Orange, New Jersey , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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February 11, 1847
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| Died | October 18, 1931
(84 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | Like Ben Franklin, Thomas Alva Edison was both a scientist and an inventor. Born in 1847, Edison would see tremendous change take place in his lifetime. He was also to be responsible for making many of those changes occur. When Edison was born, society still thought of electricity as a novelty, a fad. By the time he died, entire cities were lit by electricity. Much of the credit for that progress goes to Edison. In his lifetime, Edison patented 1,093 inventions, earning him the nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park." The most famous of his inventions was an incandescent light bulb. Besides the light bulb, Edison developed the phonograph and the "kinetoscope," a small box for viewing moving films. He also improved upon the original design of the stock ticker, the telegraph, and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone. He believed in hard work, sometimes working twenty hours a day. Edison was quoted as saying, "Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." In tribute to this important American, electric lights in the United States were dimmed for one minute on October 21, 1931, a few days after his death.
Major Accomplishments
Edison, Thomas A(lva), inventor; b. Milan, OH, Feb. 11, 1847; s. Samuel and Nancy E.; received some instruction from his mother; (hon. Ph.D., Union coll. 1878; D. Sc., Princeton U., 1915; LL.D., Univ. of the State of New York, 1916); m. Mary G. Stillwell, 1873; children - Marion Estelle, Thomas A., William L; m. 2d, Mina Miller, 1886; children - Madeleine, Charles Theodore. At 12 years of age became newsboy on the Grand Trunk Ry.; later learned telegraphy; worked as operator at various places in U.S. and Canada; invented many telegraphic appliances, including automatic repeater, quadruplex telegraph, printing telegraph, etc. Established workshop at Newark, NJ, removing to Menlo Park, NJ, 1876, and later (1887) to West Orange, NJ. Invented machines for quadruplex and sextuplex telegraphic transmission; the electric pen and mimeograph; the carbon telephone transmitter; the microphone; the microtasimeter for detection of small changes in temperature; the megaphone; the phonograph; the incandescent lamp and light system; the electric valve, (at first called the "Edison effect"), now fundamentally essential in wireless telegraphy; a system of wireless telegraphy to and from moving railway trains; motion pictures; the telescribe; alkaline storage battery; since commencement of European War, 1914, designed, built and operated successfully several benzol plants; also 2 carbolic acid plants; also other chemical plants for making myrbane aniline oil, aniline salt, and paraphenylenediamine; has received patents for more than 1,000 inventions. Was made Chevalier, Officer, and afterwards Comdr. Legion of Honor, by French Govt.; apptd. 1903, hon. Chief consulting engr., St. Louis Expn, 1904. Awarded John Firtz medal, 1908; Rathenau medal (German), Am. Mus. of Safety, 1914; congressional gold medal, 1928, "for development and application of inventions that have revolutionized civilization in the last century". Pres. Naval Consulting Bd., July 1915 --. Made many war inventions for U.S. Govt. Home: West Orange, NJ. Died Oct. 18, 1931.
First Appeared on a United tates Postage Stamp in 1947.
Vote totals for elections in which was nominated for the Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1900-1965): 1960-108.
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