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Trial it for FREE today. Edison started up a business with the aim of inventing things. He employed people to work for him to develop his ideas. This was called an incandescent lightbulb. This became known as the electric power system. Edison said lots of wise things that people often refer back to. We call these quotes. Scroll down the page to read some of Edison's most famouse quotes. Edison famously said, " Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Edison lived until he was 84 years old. Thomas Edison: famous quotes "Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Play the interactive Invention Factory game Make your own motion picture movie using a camera, phone or tablet Watch a Horrible Histories video, Thomas Edison invents 'hello'!
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Complete the questionnaire he used to pick his 'muckers' and find out! Despite his prolific telegraph work, Edison encountered financial difficulties by late , but with the help of his father was able to build a laboratory and machine shop in Menlo Park, New Jersey, 12 miles south of Newark. In , Edison developed the carbon transmitter, a device that improved the audibility of the telephone by making it possible to transmit voices at higher volume and with more clarity.
That same year, his work with the telegraph and telephone led him to invent the phonograph, which recorded sound as indentations on a sheet of paraffin-coated paper; when the paper was moved beneath a stylus, the sounds were reproduced.
In , Edison focused on inventing a safe, inexpensive electric light to replace the gaslight—a challenge that scientists had been grappling with for the last 50 years.
With the help of prominent financial backers like J. He made a breakthrough in October with a bulb that used a platinum filament, and in the summer of hit on carbonized bamboo as a viable alternative for the filament, which proved to be the key to a long-lasting and affordable light bulb. In , he set up an electric light company in Newark, and the following year moved his family which by now included three children to New York.
He built a large estate and research laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, with facilities including a machine shop, a library and buildings for metallurgy, chemistry and woodworking.
He also had the idea of linking the phonograph to a zoetrope, a device that strung together a series of photographs in such a way that the images appeared to be moving. Working with William K. Dickson, Edison succeeded in constructing a working motion picture camera, the Kinetograph, and a viewing instrument, the Kinetoscope, which he patented in After years of heated legal battles with his competitors in the fledgling motion-picture industry, Edison had stopped working with moving film by In the interim, he had had success developing an alkaline storage battery, which he originally worked on as a power source for the phonograph but later supplied for submarines and electric vehicles.
In , automaker Henry Ford asked Edison to design a battery for the self-starter, which would be introduced on the iconic Model T. Often that was Western Union Telegraph Company, the industry leader, but just as often, it was one of Western Union's rivals. In , Edison moved his expanding operations to Menlo Park, New Jersey, and built an independent industrial research facility incorporating machine shops and laboratories.
That same year, Western Union encouraged him to develop a communication device to compete with Alexander Graham Bell 's telephone.
He never did. Thomas Edison listening to a phonograph through a primitive headphone. In December , Edison developed a method for recording sound: the phonograph. His innovation relied upon tin-coated cylinders with two needles: one for recording sound, and another for playback.
His first words spoken into the phonograph's mouthpiece were, "Mary had a little lamb. Army to bring music to the troops overseas during World War I. While Edison was not the inventor of the first light bulb, he came up with the technology that helped bring it to the masses.
After buying Woodward and Evans' patent and making improvements in his design, Edison was granted a patent for his own improved light bulb in He began to manufacture and market it for widespread use. In January , Edison set out to develop a company that would deliver the electricity to power and light the cities of the world.
That same year, Edison founded the Edison Illuminating Company—the first investor-owned electric utility—which later became General Electric. In , he left Menlo Park to establish facilities in several cities where electrical systems were being installed.
In , the Pearl Street generating station provided volts of electrical power to 59 customers in lower Manhattan. In , Edison built an industrial research laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, which served as the primary research laboratory for the Edison lighting companies.
He spent most of his time there, supervising the development of lighting technology and power systems. He also perfected the phonograph, and developed the motion picture camera and the alkaline storage battery. Over the next few decades, Edison found his role as inventor transitioning to one as industrialist and business manager. The laboratory in West Orange was too large and complex for any one man to completely manage, and Edison found he was not as successful in his new role as he was in his former one.
Edison also found that much of the future development and perfection of his inventions was being conducted by university-trained mathematicians and scientists. He worked best in intimate, unstructured environments with a handful of assistants and was outspoken about his disdain for academia and corporate operations. During the s, Edison built a magnetic iron-ore processing plant in northern New Jersey that proved to be a commercial failure.
Later, he was able to salvage the process into a better method for producing cement. Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
His interest in motion pictures began years earlier, when he and an associate named W. Dickson developed a Kinetoscope, a peephole viewing device.
Among the first of these was The Great Train Robbery , released in Of course, Edison also later invented the entire electric utility system so he could power all those light bulbs, motors and other appliances that soon followed. Viewed with a microscope, these first motion pictures were rather crude, and hard to focus.
Working with W. Cut into continuous strips and perforated along the edges, the film was moved by sprockets in a stop-and-go motion behind the shutter. One-person at a time could view the movies via the Kinetoscope. Each Kinetoscope was about 4 feet tall, 20 inches square, and had a peep hole magnifier that allowed the patron to view 50 feet of film in about 20 seconds.
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