Thomas Edison's Accomplishments

Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera can easily be indentified as one of the greatest inventors of all time. In his era, Edison was considered brilliant above all standards and everything he seemed to do was held in the highest regard as if made of gold. Yet, even the most ingenious minds always seem to be accompanied by a touch of madness. There was indeed a side to Edison that only the most unfortunate would see, a side that was never meant for the light.
An uninhibited egoist, he was a tyrant to employees and ruthless to competitors. Yet, nothing compared to the everyday horrors his child factory workers would endure. The factory bustled with hundreds of young girls and boys slaving away in unbearable conditions. The boys worked mostly with the larger and more complicated machinery, while the girls worked in the production line assembling countless inventions each and everyday. They would work endless hours without breaks in conditions that were …show more content…
Disturbingly enough, the dolls voices also sounded dreadfully familiar to many of the children in the factory. It soon became very clear as to where these voices came from. You see, Edison was indeed a man of innovation and genius, but with this also came insanity and a dark lust for knowledge. It was later realized that he was conducting unauthorized and horrific experiments on many of his innocent young factory workers. He would take these children into ‘meetings’ and make them his personal recording artists as he tortured and experimented on them for many of his other unorthodox inventions. At the time he was mostly focused on inventing a device that could harness a human’s Invisible source of electrical energy and link it to inanimate objects, in that way preserving one’s soul for an eternity. His dolls were consequentially a prototype of this