How Did Thomas Edison Impact The World

A legacy in today’s world, with an astonishing one thousand and ninety-three patents, Thomas Edison, is known to be one of the greatest inventor of all time, having the record for the most number of patents. Most of his inventions till this day, still greatly effects the lives of humans everywhere. Thomas Edison was born in February of eighteen forty-seven, in Milan, Ohio to mother Nancy Elliott Edison, a teacher and Samuel Edison, a political activist. Who both influenced his life to a great extent. During his childhood, Thomas had almost lost all his capacity of hearing, as it then impacted his life years to come. Many people believe it could have been the effects of a fever he contracted when he was younger, which led to an infection, or …show more content…
Thomas was trying to figure out how to record telephone communication. The phonograph was the first ever machine that was able to record the sound of people’s voice and play it back after for others to hear. It was able to record the sound from indentations on a sheet of paraffin-coated paper, it is then moved under a stylus producing the sounds over, allowing people to hear. This new technology Thomas discovered made music come into existence. This invention came from Thomas’s work with telephone and telegraph. He was awarded the patent to this discovery in February of eighteen seventy-eight. The first words the Thomas Edison was able to record on the phonograph was “Mary had a little lamb.” After patenting this method, he established the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company, so that he was able to sell this new technology he discovered. He wanted the phonograph to be able to be used for dictation, or having phonographic books to help blind people, recording music, and connection with the telephone. In today’s society, the phonograph had affected the lives of humans greatly. The phonograph revolutionized music, everything could be able to be recorded, allowing music can be produced and made to the public. The music industry would not where it is today and have evolved in such a way that it did if it was not for the phonograph. People were putting phonograph recordings into coin slots machines within the streets of the cities allowing for pole to listen to several minutes of recorded audio. Decades later, this led to every on being able to carry thousands and thousands of songs in most devices and can listen it to at any time of the day and it is all thanks to Thomas Edison from discovering a way to record