Thomas Edison

This episode consisted mostly on J.P. Morgan, and how he wanted to build a company from the ground up like Rockefeller and Carnegie. J.P. Morgan went to Thomas Edison to find the answer. The answer being electricity. Morgan saw that potential that electricity and the lightbulb possessed and was determined to become the one who lights America, but Rockefeller knew that kerosene would go out of business and tried to stop it. All while Andrew Carnegie was reconstructing his steel business from its…

and much more. General Electric was founded in 1892. The founders of General Electric are Thomas Alva Edison and Charles Coffin. Edison and Coffin independently owned their own companies both working toward electric innovations. As competitors in working towards the same goal, they decided coming together as a team would be more efficient and profitable. On April 15, 1892 Edison Electric Company and Thomas-Houston Company merged to form General Electric. Combining these businesses the new…

Farnsworth was born. In a very short time Philo began to ask questions, accordingly his parents answered as best as they could, he was very interested in mechanics and electricity. As he grew up, he was mesmerized with the hand-cranked telephone Thomas Edison had made and hand-cranked phonograph that Alexander Graham Bell had made. They were his new heroes. Trying for a better life, the Farnsworth family moved from Utah to Idaho. Philo had observed that his parent’s home was wired for…

The car sparked the invention of electricity and the light bulb. Both were invented by Henry Ford’s friend and partner Thomas Edison. Electricity would be the most helpful invention along with the car in history. Before electricity people used candles to light their house but with electricity people can not only use it to light their house but to use it to keep food cold, or…

individuals always solve highly difficult tasks, problems, and conflicts. We can assume that being gifted is a great aspect to have in our life. Like for example inventors such as Thomas Edison invented an abstraction that helped many individuals in this world to have light without the use of a candle or the moon. Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb which was more efficient, durable, and advanced. It’s significant to note that the gifted always view, relate, and experience the world in unique…

Imagine a world without electricity, a period of prolonged darkness, not just a brief power outage. Attempt to envision a world where time does not exist. Sounds abnormal, yet for the greater part of human presence, this is the means by which we lived. The sun was the nearest instrument we had to a clock, and it contained all the information we desired. Endeavor to picture a world where there is no such thing as a stove to cook an evening feast for your growing family; no television to watch…

they could make with the machine. This era of industry has turned our mind to inventing only when in need of profit. For instance, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb; however, he not only decreased the amount of wax that was used for candles but also increased the unemployment rates of candle makers. This may not seem significant now, but, at the time, some hated Edison for his idea. As W.H. Auden wrote, “Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to…

The definition of the word technology is “the use of science in industry, engineering, etc., to invent useful things or to solve problems”. Throughout history, there have been many technological advances. They were created to make people’s lives easier or, as the definition states, to solve problems. I am going to describe the most important technological advances made in the pre-modern and modern eras (1450-present). I will also explain how technological advances changed society for better or…

Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820-1840. Who were some of the most significant American inventors? Thomas Newcomen created the first practical steam engine for pumping water, the Newcomen steam engine. Thomas Edison and his workshop patented 1,093 inventions. Included in this were the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb, and the motion picture. He was the most famous inventor of his time and his…

The Phonograph and Gender Introduction The year was 1977. Thomas Edison created the phonograph, a device he thought would be used for business and preserving important figures’ last words. Instead, it became the first music playing device. The phonograph is the Walkman 's, the CD player’s, the boombox’s, and the mp3 player’s ancestor. It was the very first. Although it was a machine, something women of the time were not typically associated with, they influenced the phonograph much more than…