Versatile inventor Thomas Alva Edison

Versatile inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in the city of Milan, Ohio, United States. Just three years of formal education he received, after it was kicked out of school because the teacher thought the child was incredible stupid.
His first creation, dibikinnya electronic voice recorder when she was twenty-one years. The results of his work did not sell. After that he engaged hoped fabrication equipment that can be sold in the market, soon after he managed to make an electronic voice recorder, he discovered and perfected telegraph machine that automatically print the letter, which sold for 40,000 dollars, a huge amount at that time. After that, like the line he found new work and in a very short time Edison was not only famous but also rich. Perhaps, the most original inventions is a machine that records dipatenkannya in 1877. However, more famous in the world of football it is the development of a practical incandescent lamp in 1879.

Edison was not the first to create a system of electric lighting. A few years earlier bersinarkan electric lights have been used for lighting street lamps in Paris. However, Edison's incandescent ball follows the electricity distribution system which allows the development of practical electric lighting for the home. In 1882, the company began producing electricity for homes in New York, and in a short time had spread throughout the world.

With the establishment of the first power company to light homes, Edison is already laying the foundation for the development of major industries. The use of electricity not only for lighting but for all aspects of household needs, ranging from television to the washing machine. Furthermore, the use of electricity through the distribution networks by Edison established itself encourages the use of electricity for the industrial sector.

Edison also gave enormous contribution for the development of film cameras and projectors. He made important improvements pertilponan (carbon transmitters enhance the clarity of hearing), improvements in the field of cables, and a typewriter. Among the other findings include dictation machines, coffee machines and storage battery driven. If anything, Edison designed more than 1000 inventions, an amount that does not really make sense.

One very surprising because their productivity is due at the beginning of his career he built a laboratory investigation in Menlo Park, New Jersey. That's where he gathered a group of skilled makers helped. This is the embryo of a laboratory investigation that later imitated by so many industries. Edison's laboratory modern beginner, a major investigation of wake up call in which so many people working together is a team, her handiwork is also important, though, of course, something he could not patented.

Edison was not a mere inventor, he was also involved in organizing various fabrication and industrial companies. The most important of which eventually became General Electric Company.

Although the traits he is not a pure scientist, Edison make a scientific discovery. In 1882 he found that in the near vacuum conditions, the electrical current can flow between the two wires are not touching each other. This phenomenon - called Edison's invention - not only has important theoretical point, but also have meaning meaningful practical use. This led to the development of vacuum tubes and electronic industries founding.

Almost all of his life, Edison suffered from weak hearing. But, even so, he is more than able to overcome that obstacle with hard work is amazing. Edison married twice (his first wife died young), had three children from each wife. He died in 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey.

There was no dispute about the talent Edison understood. Everyone agreed that he was the genius of great inventors who ever lived. Rows of his findings are very useful and make considered shocking knee shivering, although it may be partially developed by other people within thirty years. However, if we consider his personal discoveries, would seem to us that none of it has an important meaning that is decisive. For example incandescent ball, although widely used, is not an irreplaceable items in the modern world. The fact is, information derived from the scattered radiation and came out in the form of light, which works on the basis of scientific principles are entirely different, people are also widely used, and in our lives everyday not make any difference if we do not use incandescent light bulbs altogether. Indeed, before electric lighting is used, candles, oil lamps, and gas lamps are generally regarded as a satisfactory level of illumination.

LPs tool is a clever invention, but no one thought the instrument was able to change our lives everyday as well as the role presented a radio, television or telephone. Furthermore, in recent years this has been able to create voice recorders with methods completely different, such as magnetic tape cassettes. And if there is no record engine, it's okay. Many of Edison's patents relating to the improvement of tools, actually being found by other people first, even in a form that can be utilized. These improvements - although much help - can not be considered as an important meaning in the course of history in general movement.

But, although none of Edison's inventions have a staggering importance, is also useful to remember that he did not just create a single tool, but more than a thousand. On the basis of these considerations I placed higher than Edison's famed as the inventor Guglielmo Marconi and Alexander Graham Bell. Michael H. Hart,One hundred most influential figures in the history.