short biography
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February, 11 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was the youngest child out of 7 children. His parents were Samuel and Nancy Edison. He attended public school for 12 weeks in his entire life. He did poorly in school and his mother took him out of public school so that she could home school Thomas. Thomas soon developed the love for reading, which he kept for the rest of his life. When Edison was 12 he put all his education to work and started work as newspaper boy. He also practiced chemical experiments in a train baggage car he set up. Most of his experiments came from his readings. At the age of 15 he totally changed his career and became a telegraph operator. Even though Thomas was partially deaf, he could still hear the clicks of the telegraph. Edison moved to New York at the time and started his first invention, the stock ticker. From this started his inventing career. Thomas died by the complications of diabetes in his home Glenmont lest orange, New Jersey. He died at the age of 84 and he earned a1,093 patents from America alone.
disc Phonograph
Thomas Edison was mainly concentrated on the cylinder phonograph. Knowing that the popularity of discs were rising, Edison associates tried to develop their own disc player and discs in secret. The new Edison disc phonograph was shown to the public first at the fifth annual convention for the national association of talking machine jobbers at Milwaukee.
lightbulb
Thomas Edison had many great challenges, but his main challenge was the invention of the light bulb. In 1879, he used low current electricity, a small carbonized filament, and an improved vacuum inside the globe. Using all this, he created a long lasting, reliable source of light using electricity.
kinetoscope
The project of the kinetescope was started in 1888. Ben Franklin attempted this invention to synchronize motion pictures with the sound of a phonograph cylinder record. He was successful and that is how the movie industry started getting big.