Thomas Alva Edison, the greatest inventor of all time. This genius genius once dubbed the Menlo Park Wizard, He holds 1,093 patents on his behalf. He is also the first inventor to apply the principle mass production in the discovery process making it a reliable businessman.
Among the various success stories of General Electric's founders were tucked some Unique Story, Here we present 10 of them.
Hard to hear, not deaf
Edison is often called deafness. In fact he is not completely unable to hear, but has difficulty to hear perfectly. The cause is different according to some sources. There is a mention because of fever when he was a child and several times the middle ear infection is not treated. who also mentioned that his ear was beaten by a train conductor when his chemistry laboratory was in a burned-out freight car.
Newspaper on the first train
Edison's penchant for experimenting on railroad cars led him to laboratories inside freight cars even though the lab was finally burned. Edison later rebuilt the chemistry lab and printing in the trunk of the car. It was here that he published the Grand Trunk Herald which was the first newspaper published on the train.
Dot and Dash
Edison has three children from her marriage to Mary Stilwell. Two of her sons are given a unique nickname, Dot (Marion Estelle Edison) and Dash (Thomas Alva Edison Junior), which she allegedly picked up from the symbol used in Morse's code ie "." line "-".
Apply Mina with Morse code
After Mary Stilwell died, Edison met Mina Miller who was a inventor, Lewis Miller. She taught Mina Morse code so they could communicate in secret with a tap of code in their hands. One day Edison asked Mina: -. - / ..- / .- .. / - .. // -.-- / --- /..- // - / .- / .-. / .-. / -.-- // - /. // Mina then answered with: -.-- /. / ... Soon after, both were married.
Rejecting is called a failure
Edison protested a newspaper containing the headline: "After 9955 failed to find the incandescent light bulb, Edison finally managed to find the lights on." He requested the title be replaced. The next day, at Edison's request, the newspaper changed the headline the main being: "After 9955 times managed to find a light that failed to light up, Edison finally managed to find the lights on"
The first patent failed
In 1869, at the age of 22, Edison obtained his first patent for a telegraphic voice recording machine he designed for the legislature. With that tool, every legislative member simply moved a button on the machine that would record the bill he chose.Unfortunately, is rejected by the legislature because of the way it works that slow.
The tattoo machine
In 1876, Edison patented Stencil-pens, a device that later modified Samuel O'Reilly to become the first tattoo machine. Yet he remained awarded for the invention of the first tattoo machine.
The first industrial research laboratory
After selling Telegraph quadruplex purchased by Western Union for $ 10,000, Edison used the money he earned to build a place he would deliberately devote to continuously produce and develop technological innovation products. The premises located in Menlo Park, New Jersey eventually developed into an industrial research laboratory first in the world.
Witch Menlo Park
The nickname was obtained Edison after successfully finding the phonograph in 1877 as well as raised its popularity. The achievement was so unexpected by many people that it looks like magic.Fonografon first managed to record the sound on the tin paper that surrounds a cylinder grooved.Hut the resulting sound quality is still bad and the recording can only be played back a few times.
Electricity for all
The concept and implementation of the power plant and its distribution to homes, offices and factories is very important in the development of the modern industrialization world. Edison was the first to come up with that concept. His first power station was built in Manhattan Island, New York in 1882.
