Inventing Solutions
Thomas Edison was born in Millan Ohio on February 11th, 1847. He did not learn to talk until he was almost 4 years old. While in primary school, Thomas often day dreamed and was commonly characterized as being mentally slow by his teachers. Because of those comments, young Edison’s mother took him out of school, and home schooled him. In 1854 his family moved to Port Huron Michigan. Growing up, Edison sold candy and newspapers on trains. He later on became a telegraph operator after saving the train station agent’s daughter from an oncoming train. At the age of 21, Edison moved to Louisville Kentucky in 1866 and became an employee of western union. Starting in 1872, Thomas Edison worked on the quadruplex telegraph system. …show more content…
Edison made Swan a partner and eventually bought him and his patent out, taking full ownership of the patent. Edison patented a system for electrical distribution in 1880, in order to make the most of on his electric …show more content…
When those limitations were made public, Edison launched a propaganda campaign to convince the people of the superiority of direct current. This War of the Currents as it was called, brought in the involvement of Nikola Tesla, who happened to be an inventor and rival of Thomas Edison. Tesla had created the alternating current power generator. Alternating current eventually proved to be a better power transmitting system than using direct current. In 1888, Edison started working on inventing a motion picture camera. Edison passed on the work of creating the camera to one of his assistants. Edison himself had very little involvement in the invention, on may 20th 1891, the kinetoscope and kinetograph were revealed. Moving images were taken with the kinetograph and shown thru a Peep Hole in the kinetoscope. Some of the things that Edison filmed with this early motion picture camera included a man doing tricks on his single gear bike and 2 men boxing with each other. One of the lesser known ideas of Edison was Concrete Furniture. This idea came from a failed attempt at making concrete housing. Edison used what was supposedly light weight foam concrete to manufacture various home furnishings. Edison shipped out some of his furnishings to put them on display, but they arrived broken up. This caused Edison to close down his line of concrete furnishings for
Thomas Edison was born in Millan Ohio on February 11th, 1847. He did not learn to talk until he was almost 4 years old. While in primary school, Thomas often day dreamed and was commonly characterized as being mentally slow by his teachers. Because of those comments, young Edison’s mother took him out of school, and home schooled him. In 1854 his family moved to Port Huron Michigan. Growing up, Edison sold candy and newspapers on trains. He later on became a telegraph operator after saving the train station agent’s daughter from an oncoming train. At the age of 21, Edison moved to Louisville Kentucky in 1866 and became an employee of western union. Starting in 1872, Thomas Edison worked on the quadruplex telegraph system. …show more content…
Edison made Swan a partner and eventually bought him and his patent out, taking full ownership of the patent. Edison patented a system for electrical distribution in 1880, in order to make the most of on his electric …show more content…
When those limitations were made public, Edison launched a propaganda campaign to convince the people of the superiority of direct current. This War of the Currents as it was called, brought in the involvement of Nikola Tesla, who happened to be an inventor and rival of Thomas Edison. Tesla had created the alternating current power generator. Alternating current eventually proved to be a better power transmitting system than using direct current. In 1888, Edison started working on inventing a motion picture camera. Edison passed on the work of creating the camera to one of his assistants. Edison himself had very little involvement in the invention, on may 20th 1891, the kinetoscope and kinetograph were revealed. Moving images were taken with the kinetograph and shown thru a Peep Hole in the kinetoscope. Some of the things that Edison filmed with this early motion picture camera included a man doing tricks on his single gear bike and 2 men boxing with each other. One of the lesser known ideas of Edison was Concrete Furniture. This idea came from a failed attempt at making concrete housing. Edison used what was supposedly light weight foam concrete to manufacture various home furnishings. Edison shipped out some of his furnishings to put them on display, but they arrived broken up. This caused Edison to close down his line of concrete furnishings for