Thomas edison’s story....General electric Company
Thomas dropped out school when he was 9 years old.
His teachers deemed that he was not clever at all. So her mother taught him to learn and
write. From the very early age Thomas was very curious and had a great interest for eve-
rything around him...so he had as a chance to way out the reading of many many scientific
books.
From the age of 13 years old, Thomas was selling newspapers and candies near to the lo-
cal rail way station...just to earn some coins....his favor game was flipping a coin.... when
he was fifteen years old, he saved the little son of the stationmaster from a train that was
coming with great rapidity. As a return for saving his son, the stationmaster taught to Tho-
mas how a telegrapher works.....
Soon Edison left his work and made his own small lab, where his experiments were taking
place. In 1869 the twenty two young men had his first patent, discovering a machine that
counts the votes. Unfortunately, no one bought that machine...The next patent was a tel-
egraphic share’s receiver that gave him about 40.000 dollars, an amount that was enough
for new patents. In 1876, Edison opened a new lab at the Menlo Park, which was the first
lab of industrial lab in the world. At that lab he made the greatest patents and got the name
“the magician of Menlo Park”. After a year he created the phonograph and a machine that
could reproduce sounds. In 1891 he created a machine that could screen images in move.
These two patents actually opened new channels to the industrial music and cinema.
Of course Thomas Edison is most known for the glow’s light (1879) but there is a conflict as
far as about 18 scientists had worked on that patent before Edison.
Thomas Edison was died on 1931, at the age of 84 years old. That day the light cut off for
a minute at the memory of the great inventor
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