Thomas Alva Edison Research Paper

On February 11, 1847, one of the world’s greatest inventors was born. His name was Thomas Alva Edison. He was born in Milan, Ohio, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. Yes, he was very successful, yet he had almost no schooling. He only spent a few months in school before his schoolteacher mother taught him some at home. Although most of the time he would buy books, visit the library, and teach himself. He also, was in an accident that caused him to go deaf, or mostly deaf, about the time of his 12th birthday. These things didn’t stop him from doing anything.
When he was younger he was fascinated by telegraph machines. One day he rescued a child from an oncoming train. The baby’s father just happened to be a telegraph operator. He wanted to reward him somehow, and Edison requested that he teach him how to be a telegraph operator. Edison’s mind was always at work, and he thought he could improve the telegraph. So he ended up inventing a writing telegraph. Westward Union asked him to sell his ideas. Edison, thinking that they were worth about $3,000, was amazed when they offered him $30,000! And that is when Edison became an inventor. …show more content…
But there were many other inventions that led up to this one, such as Humphry Davy inventing the first electric light in 1802. And Warren de La Rue who enclosed a coiled platinum filament in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it in 1840. In 1850, Joseph Wilson Swan created a light bulb by enclosing carbonized paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. On July, 1874, Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans built their lamps with different shapes and sizes of carbon rods held between electrodes in glass cylinders filed with nitrogen. Being unsuccessful in their attempt to commercialize their lamp, they eventually sold their patent to Edison in 1879. All of these inventions fell through