Thomas Edison by Tom

Have you ever wondered what it would be like without the light bulb. Well thanks to Thomas Edison we have the light bulb and many other things. In this essay you will learn Edison's childhood, inventions and his life after inventing.

childhood

In Milan, Ohio Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 Edison was born with scarlet fever, which made him partly deaf. Thomas Edison was a very curious boy he loved to ask questions if he wasn't sure about something. When Edison went to school his teacher thought there was something wrong with Edison because he asked to many questions. When Edison was 12 years old he worked on a train, he sold newspapers for money to get equipment for his experiments.

Inventions

Many people knew that Edison was a great inventor. In 1869, Thomas Edison moved to New York and invented the stock ticker. That same year, he also invented the vote recorder. Then he invented the Quadruplex Telegraph in 1874 and the electric pen in 1875. In Edison's first few years, he received 32 patents from his inventions.

The light bulb

The light bulb was Edison's greatest invention. It wasn't easy at first because Edison had to find out what could hold electricity. He tried 8,000 times and failed every time. On the 8,001 try, he succeeded. He finally found what could hold electricity. He received a patent in 1879 for the lightbulb and began manufacturing it shortly after. Shortly after he made the light bulb he hosted a exhibition. Edison presented all of his inventions. In 1880, Edison created a factory to make incandescent lamps. In the same year, Edison created a company called Edison Illuminating Company which now goes by the name General Electric Corporation.

After inventing

In the middle of all of his inventions, Edison married a 16-year old name Mary Stilwell in 1871. Together, they had three children and were married for 13 years. Mary died in 1884 from a brain tumor. In 1885, Edison married Mina Miller. When Thomas Edison was young steam power was the technology that they had but Edison didn't know that someday there would be a new source of power. After inventing, Edison bought a mansion and he turned into a laboratory and there he continued to work on his inventions. Thomas Edison died from complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931 in New Jersey. He was 84 years old. Right before he died his last words were, “It's very beautiful over there”.

Because of Thomas Edison we have light and many other things. without him we would not have some of the things that we have today.