Thomas Alva Edison (English
name: Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931), a world-famous inventor, physicist, and entrepreneur with many Well-known and important
He has more than 2,000 invention patents and was awarded the title of "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by the media! He was the first person in human history to use the principles of mass production and the laboratory of electrical engineering research to patent inventions that had a major and far-reaching impact on the world.
Edison has more than 2,000 inventions, including the phonograph, movie camera, tungsten light bulb, etc., which have had a great impact on the world. In the United States, Edison has 1,093 patents to his name, and his total number of patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and other places exceeds 1,500.
Edison is one of the famous geniuses in the history of technology. He holds 1,093 patents for inventions such as incandescent lamps, phonographs, movie projectors, and cameras. Among them, Edison's four major inventions: the phonograph, the electric light, the electric power system and the talkies have enriched and improved human civilization.
Chinese name: Thomas Alva Edison
Foreign name: Thomas Alva Edison
Nationality: United States
Birthplace: United States Milan Township, Ohio
Date of birth: February 11, 1847
Date of death: October 18, 1931
Occupation: Inventor, Physics Home, Entrepreneur
Faith: Christianity
Main Achievements: King of Inventions, Father of Light, co-founder of General Electric Company, wizard of Menlo Park, more than 2,000 invention patents, The magician of Menlo Park, the real-life Prometheus
Place of death: West Orange, New Jersey, USA
Blood type: Type O
Constellation : Aquarius
IQ: 278
Character Life
The Giant Comes to the World
Edison was born in the early morning of February 11, 1847
p>Three o'clock was born in the small town of Milan (V?rmland) in Ohio, in the midwestern United States.
His father is a descendant of the Dutch, and his mother once worked as a primary school teacher and is a descendant of the Scots. When Edison was 7 years old, his father lost money in the roofing business, so he moved the family to Michigan (Michigan) and settled at Fort Gratiot in the northern suburbs of Huron. Shortly after moving here, Edison contracted scarlet fever and remained ill for a long time. It was believed that this disease was the cause of his deafness. Edison went to school at the age of 8, but after only reading
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for three months, he was dismissed by the teacher as an "imbecile" and kicked out of school (he was kicked out of school for being "stupid and confused". Ordered
to drop out of school). From then on, his mother became his "teacher" and decided to teach her son how to read and write, and educate him to be honest, love the motherland, and love mankind. Because of his mother's good education methods, he developed a strong interest in reading. "He not only read a lot of books, but he also read ten lines at a glance and could recite them after reading them." When he was 8 years old, he read the works of Shakespeare and Dickens, the most important playwrights of the British Renaissance, and many important historical books. By the age of 9, he could quickly read more difficult books
, such as Parker's "Natural and Experimental Philosophy". In addition to more than 1,000 inventions in the United States, Edison also has more than 1,500 invention patents in Europe, including the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He founded the Edison Electric Lighting Company in 1879, the Edison General Electric Company in 1890, and co-founded the General Electric Company in 1892.