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on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison when Edison was seven his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan with 12 he started to loose hearing 3
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he set up his own printing press Edison attended public school for a total of 12 weeks this were the first newspaper ever published in a railroad train 4
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"My mother was the making of me. She was so true, The boy is backward. All he does is so sure of me, and asks questions. I felt I had someone to live Nonsense I will teach him for, someone I myself! must not disappoint.5
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In 1866, at age 19, Edison moved to Louisville, Kentucky, working for The Associated Press
The night shift allowed him to spend most of his time reading and experimenting In 1868, Edison returned home to find his mother was falling into mental illness and his father was out of work He ventured to Boston, landing a job for the Western Union Company 6
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In 1869, Edison moved to New York City and developed his first invention, an improved stock ticker The Gold and Stock Telegraph Company was so impressed, they paid him $40,000 for the rights7 Edison was only 22 years old
THE INVENTOR
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In 1870, Thomas Edison set up his first small laboratory and manufacturing facility in Newark, New Jersey, and employed several machinists.7
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During their 13-year marriage, they had three children, Marion, Thomas and William8 Mary died of a suspected brain tumor at the age of 29 in 1884.
Edison, half-deaf, taught Mina Morse code. One day, Edison asked .-- --- ...-.. -.. -.-- --- ..- -- .- .-. .-. -.-- -- . and Mina replied -.-- . ...9
By the end of the 1920s Thomas Edison was in his 80s and he slowed down somewhat, but not before he applied for the last of his 1,093 U.S. patents, for an apparatus for holding objects during the electroplating process.11
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Died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931 in New Yersey By the time he died he was one of the most well-known and respected Americans in the world
INVENTIONS
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passion Perfected Thomas Edison created 1,093 inventions telephone Kinetograph He was still inventing when he died Worked on
Kinetoscope Carbon button transmitter Stock phpnograph ticker Durable light bulb Electrical Electricity vote distribution recorder system Commercial fluoroscope
LIGHT BULB
In 1879 Edison had a bulb that lasted for two days
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Three factors in combination are generally Edisons light bulb did not last long, so inventor Lewis Latimer improved the recognized as contributing to Edisons success: light bulb by developing carbon filaments that lasted longer!!! 30 1)down A durable incandescent material It cuts on candles manufactured, big maintenance cost, wasted energy when there is heat going off the bulb, it is very fragile-the light bulb 2) Elimination of air from the bulb-a better 31 can break very easily in a vibrational environment!!!
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The light bulb changed the world's industry -- businesses now could dramatically improve production available by running around the clock. The world changed in terms of leisure, too, as people who for centuries had retired with the sunset now ventured out far more often at night for social reasons.
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Since the film rolls were not long enough and sturdy enough, Edison and his crew were not able to build a device based on Mareys technique. After invented, Edison developed his usage of kinetoscope. The Kinetoscope was a motion picture projector
invented in 1888 On August 24, 1891, Edison filed the patent for the camera (kinetograph) peep-hole viewer (kinetoscope) set-up, indicating the film width to be 35mm and the possibility of using a Motion pictures forever cylinder for futurechanged upgrades. how mankind was entertained. No longer many people need to travel long distances to see a show or hear a concert; they could go to a local movie hall!
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greatest failure of Thomas Edison's career was his inability to create a practical way to mine iron ore. One concept that never took off was Edison's interest in using cement to build things.13
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DO NOT LET FAILURES TO DISAPPOINT YOU, THINK OF SOMETHING NEW AND HOPE YOU WILL MAKE SUCCESS.14
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