Thomas Edison

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Thomas Edison, inventions which are known all over the world, has received more than a thousand patents.Before him, no one in such numbers they had.This man has been improved incandescent bulb (he did it cost), telephone, video equipment, telegraph.It has established a phonograph count of votes in the election, iron-nickel battery, the electric chair.

Thomas Edison.Biography

this man was born in 1847, February 11, in the city of Mylan Ohio.His father (Samuel) was a master carpenter shop, and mother (Nancy) - a teacher.

When Thomas was seven, his father went bankrupt.In this regard, the family was forced to move to Port Huron Michigan.There Thomas Edison went to primary school.However, he spent three months there.The boy did not differ with some extraordinary abilities, studied, in general, not very good.Once a teacher named Thomas "stupid" at all, the mother took the boy home.Then he only received education at home.

Ten Thomas Edison became interested in chemistry and has equipped a small laboratory in the basement of the house.However, experiments needed money.In twelve years, Thomas went to work.He was selling apples on the town square, and then started to trade a variety of goods on trains, in which he spent a lot of time.He even identified later baggage car, where he moved his laboratory and where he staged his experiments.When Thomas was fifteen years old, he bought a used machine and began to publish a newspaper.

Since 1863, Thomas began working as a telegraph operator.For five years he was actively studied his work.Edison thought about Ingenuity once read a book about Faraday's experimental studies of electricity.

In 1869 was obtained the first patent for the registrar of the vote.However, this invention is not find buyers.Since then, the Thomas Edison decides to deal only profitable developments.In 1870 he sold the patent for the telegraph instrument that tells quotes on the Stock Exchange (ticker).The funds that he received (forty thousand dollars) went to a laboratory in Newark.It starts serial production of tickers.

In 1873, Thomas Edison invented the telegraph dipless functioning scheme.This development has allowed to pass in opposite directions on a single wire at the same time the two posts.Later, Edison began to transmit on four posts.

In 1876, the inventor moved to Menlo Park.It creates a new workshop here laboratory.Thomas Edison is equipping it with all the necessary equipment and tools, carefully selects staff.The objective was to improve the art to such an extent that it can be used with advantage.By and large, this laboratory is the world's first research institute.In 1877 he was released a carbon microphone and the phonograph.The latter was far from perfect, but at the time enjoyed a wildly popular.In the following 1878, Thomas Edison begins introduction in the industry of incandescent lamps.They were invented before him, the inventor only improved them.In 1882, Edison made his first plant.Since that time, the era of the lighting industry in the United States.

In 1887 the inventor was opened in West Orinzhe new laboratory, larger and better equipped.There was created a voice recorder, an alkaline battery, fluoroscopy, CRT, and was perfected phonograph.

In 1892, Edison created the biggest concern "GE".

he spent the last years of calm and measured.Edison lived in prosperity, raising children and grandchildren.

inventor died in West Orinzhe New Jersey in 1931, on 18 October.