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Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison (1847-1931) was a prolific American inventor who developed many pioneering devices, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. He established the first industrial research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he and his team conducted experiments that led to these and other groundbreaking inventions that shaped the modern world. Some of Edison's most famous inventions were the phonograph, which could record and playback sound on tinfoil cylinders, and his improved design using wax-coated cardboard that had better sound quality and could be replayed more times. He is also renowned for inventing the first commercially successful incandescent light bulb with a carbon

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison (1847-1931) was a prolific American inventor who developed many pioneering devices, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. He established the first industrial research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he and his team conducted experiments that led to these and other groundbreaking inventions that shaped the modern world. Some of Edison's most famous inventions were the phonograph, which could record and playback sound on tinfoil cylinders, and his improved design using wax-coated cardboard that had better sound quality and could be replayed more times. He is also renowned for inventing the first commercially successful incandescent light bulb with a carbon

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Born

February 11th, 1847


Milan, Ohio

Died
October 18, 1931
(aged 84)
West Orange, New
Jersey.
 He made many devices that
greatly influenced life
around the world.
 He was one of the first
inventers to apply the
principles of mass
production and large
teamwork to the process of
invention and therefore is
often credited with the
creation of the first
industrial research
laboratory.
His early life and his first invention
 Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New
Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic
devices, but the invention which first gained him fame was the
phonograph in 1877. This accomplishment was so unexpected by the
public at large as to appear almost magical. Edison became Known as
the “The wizard of Menlo park," New Jersey, where he lived.

 His first phonograph recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder


and had a poor sound quality. The tinfoil recordings could only be
replayed a few times. In the 1880s, a redesigned model using wax-
coated cardboard cylinders was produced by Alex Graham Bell and
his friends. This was one reason that Thomas Edison continued work
on his own “perfect phonograph.”
Thomas Edison's phonograph

One of his earlier designs His first phonograph

Thomas Edison
One of his more modern
with his phonograph
phonographs
Thomas Edison's light bulb
 Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead
invented the first commercially practical incandescent light.

 After many experiments with platinum and other metal filaments,


Edison returned to a carbon filament.

 The first successful test was on October 22, 1879; it lasted 40


hours.

 Edison continued to improve this design and by middle of 1880.


Edison and his team discovered a carbonized bamboo filament that
could last over 1,200 hours.
Thomas Edison's light bulbs

Thomas Edison plan Thomas Edison's first Thomas Edison most


for his light bulb successful light modern light bulb
bulb model

1 2 3
Carbon telephone microphone.
 Edison invented and developed the
carbon microphone used In all
telephones.

 This is the microphone

 The carbon microphone was also


used in radio broadcasting and
public address systems.

 This is where the microphone would


be
Places named after Thomas Edison
 “The town of Edison” in New  Some hotel have things about
Jersey U.S.A. Edison in them like “The city
 The “Thomas Edison State Hotel, in Sunbury,
College” a nationally known Pennsylvania,U.S.A was the
college for adult learners, in first building to be lit with the
Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.A. Edison bulb. The hotel was re
 “Edison State College” in Fort –named “The Hotel Edison,”
Myers, Florida. and retains that name today.
 “Edison Community college”
in Piqua, Ohio.
 There Are numerous high
schools named after Edison.
A bridge named after Edison in the U.S.A
 The Edison Bridge in Fort
Myers, Florida.
 Thomas Edison, who was
once a local Fort Myers
resident.
 Along with Henry Ford,
founder of the Ford
Motor Company.
 The bridge is 17 metres
tall.
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