Thomas Alva Edison

Inventions. part3

1880 BCE

Edison began working on motion pictures in the late 1880. In 1893, Edison demonstrates his system for making and showing motion pictures. In less than a decade, motion pictures become a popular and successful industry.

Inventions. part2

1879 BCE

Edison conducts his first successful experiments with the light bulb in October 1879 using a carbon filament that would burn in a vacuum in a glass bulb for 40 hours. Electric Generator In 1879 Edison’s research leads him to an important discovery in improving the design of generators. His invention led to generators that had more efficient power output than those in existence at the tim.

The light bulb

1878 BCE

Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament including using "cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways," it was not until several months after the patent was granted that Edison and his team discovered that a carbonized bamboo filament could last over 1200 hours.

inventions

1863 BCE

Edison Develope in 1863 his first invention simple telegraph equipment, he was working as telegrapher in the railroad when he was 12 years old. He lost the job beacuse he burnt a wagon during an experiment.
Produced more than 1.000 patents.
In 1877 while working on the telephone transmitter, Edison noticed that the tape on the machine gave off a noise that sounded like words. It was not until 1890 that it was used to record music.

School

1855 BCE

At age eight and a half Edison enters the school. After three months of attending, he returned home crying, reporting that the teacher had described him as a "sterile and unproductive" student. It is impossible to establish whether Nancy Edison took her teacher's opinion very seriously or whether she thought she was better than her son's teacher. The fact is that Edison remembered for the rest of his life the result of the happy incident.

Thomas Alva Edison

1847 BCE

An important contribution to the development of the Industrial Revolution in his country and to the improvement of the welfare and living conditions of millions of people, the figure of Edison stands out as a model of tenacity, as an example of the value of effort and incessant work above Of innate talent and intelligence.