How Did Thomas Edison Affect Society

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Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1947 in Milan, Ohio. He was born into a middle class family that would get their money from selling wheat. Even though that was how he started out he was still able to invent some of the most relevant things in today’s society 100 years ago. Edison created over 100 years ago all of these things: Light bulb, Moving picture camera, Phonograph, the Phonograph cylinder, etc. He invented much more those weren’t even half of what he made. I will be focusing on the Incandescent light bulb for the research paper, while all of the others affected society I think that the lightbulb did the most.
But first I’m going to focus on his life

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