Thomas Edison By Gemma Rate, Becky Dennis, Emily Yong and Susannah Lewis.
Who was Thomas Edison • He was an American businessman and inventor. • He was born in Milan, Ohio in 1847. • He holds 1, 097 U. S patents in his name. • He died in 1931.
Biography: Early life • Thomas Edison was the seventh and last child of his parents; Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. and Nancy Matthews Elliott. • Thomas Edison only received 3 months of official schooling, after that he was home schooled. • He became hard of hearing at the age of 12 • His family moved to Port Huron in Michigan when the railroad bypassed Milan. • He became a telephone operator after he saved a boy named Jimmie Mackenzie from being hit by a train. • Jimmie Mackenzie’s father trained him as a telephone operator after he saved his son.
Career and Inventions • Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, which was the electronic vote recorder, on October 28, 1868. • He became an inventor in Newark, New Jersey and in 1877 invented the phonograph. • Edison invented the first commercially practical light. • In 1874 Thomas Edison invented the quadruplex telegraph that could send 4 telegraph signals over the same wire at the same time. The rights for this invention were later sold for $10, 000.
List of some of Edison’s Patents • Electro-Magnets • • • Printing-Telegraphs A Kinetoscope An improved lightbulb Electric Telegraphs Dynamo or Magneto Electric Machine Telephones
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