Industrial Inventor

Thomas Edison Bron

Feb 11, 1847

Thomas Edison. The king of inventor.

Thomas' Father

Feb 11, 1847

Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. He was the seventh and last child.

Mary Stilwell

Dec 25, 1871

Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell. They had 3 children.
Marion Estelle Edison , Thomas Alva Edison, Jr. and William Leslie Edison - Inventor, graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, 1900.
Mary Edison died at age 29 on August 9, 1884

Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb

Dec 1, 1879

Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb
It use to illuminate
Benefit is cheap and convenient. The invention of light bulb lead the society has entered a new era.

first successful light bulb

Dec 30, 1879

Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb model, used in public demonstration at Menlo Park, December 1879
"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."

Edison married the 20-year-old Mina Miller

Feb 24, 1886

She was the daughter of the inventor Lewis Miller. They also had three children together:
Madeleine Edison , Charles Edison who Governor of New Jersey also took over his father's company and experimental laboratories upon his father's death. Theodore Miller Edison credited with more than 80 patents.

Telegraph improvements

Jan 15, 1891

New York City
Use to help people connect each other easily.
Drawbacks the signal problem

Motion pictures

Jan 15, 1896

NYC
Use to take pictures with motion and won't make the picture blury.
Drawbacks:
The camera or "Kinetograph" is too big. Hard to carry.

Fluoroscopy

Jan 15, 1903

He later died of injuries related to the exposure.
New York City
Benefit is helped the medical improvement.
Drawback is the radiation.