Edison was the first person in human history to use mass production principles and electrical engineering research laboratories to engage in invention patents that had a major and far-reaching impact on the world. His inventions of the phonograph, movie camera, and electric light had a great impact on the world. He made more than 2,000 inventions in his lifetime and held more than 1,000 patents.
Please refer to the following chronology for major inventions in your life (including non-physical ones):
Chronology of Edison's inventions
Invented the "voting counter" on October 11th. Obtained the first patent right in his life.
1870 Invented a general-purpose printing press, sold the patent rights, and received US$40,000.
1871 Mother died. The improved typewriter was successful. Marry Mary.
1872-1876 Invented the electric telegraph, automatic repeater telegraph method, double and quadruple telegraph methods, manufactured wax paper carbon resistors, etc.
December 28, 1874, demonstrated the performance of the four-channel telegraph to Gould at the Newark factory.
1875 Invention of the resonator for acoustic analysis. 1876 ??The first industrial research laboratory is established in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was the origin of the modern concept of "study group". Invented the carbon rod microphone. Apply for a patent for the telegraph automatic recording machine.
1877 Improved the early telephone invented by Bell and put it into practical use in Menlo Park. Obtained three patents: perforated pen, pneumatic stylus and ordinary stylus. The phonograph was invented on August 20.
1878 Edison claimed to solve the problem of electric lighting. The Royal Society holds a gramophone exhibition. Improved gramophone. Design microphones, loudspeakers, aerial speakers, sound engines, tuning engines, microthermometers, taste testers, etc.
In July, he went to Wyoming with Professor Parker of the University of Pennsylvania to observe the total solar eclipse, and used the thermometer he invented to measure the entire temperature around the sun.
On October 5, a patent application for a platinum wire "electric lamp" was filed.
In November, the carbon-resistant microphone was sent to the UK for testing.
1879-1880 After thousands of setbacks, the high-resistance incandescent lamp was invented. Improved generator. Design new current distribution methods, circuit alignment and calculation methods. Invented the light bulb holder and switch. Invented the magnetic mineral separation method.
The high-resistance incandescent lamp was invented on October 21, and it burned continuously for 40 hours.
1880 Research helicopter. Obtained patent rights for electric light invention. Made into a magnetic screener.
On January 28, a patent document for "Electric Power Transmission and Distribution System" was submitted.
1881 New York Fifth Avenue headquarters established. An incandescent lamp factory is established in New York City. Established manufacturing plants for generators, underground wires, and electric light parts. Experimenting with trolleys in Menlo Park.
In June, Edison provided a 27-ton power generation device for the Paris World Expo that could illuminate 1,200 electric lights. Edison was elected as one of the leaders of the honorary group.
The three-wire current distribution system was invented in 1882. Applied for 141 patents.
The first central power plant was established on September 4.
1884-1885 Edison leaves Menlo Park. The invention utilizes electric induction and can be used for wire communication.
Proposed a patent for wireless telegraphy on May 23, 1885.
1887-1890 Improved the cylindrical phonograph and obtained more than 80 patents on phonographs. Engaged in manufacturing and selling phonographs, records, talking machines, etc.
1888 Invented the drum-type phonograph.
1889 Participated in the Centennial Exposition in Paris. Invented many types of electric railways. Complete the moving movie machine.
1890—1899 Design of large stone crushers and grinders. Personally directed the large-scale development of iron ore using new methods at the Ogden Mine.
In 1891, he invented the "Edison Concentrator" and started his own mining business. Obtained patent rights for "Movie Projector".
On May 20, the first successful movable motion picture telescope was demonstrated to the public at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey.
1893 The world's first movie "studio" was built in the courtyard of Edison's laboratory.
On April 14, 1894, the first kinetoscope theater was opened in New York.
1899-1909 Edison completed the battery in ten years. At that time, the construction industry was developed, and long cement-smelting furnaces were designed to produce cement in large quantities. In addition, the gramophone cylinder was improved and a new type of talking machine was completed.
1902 The test of using a new type of battery to power a vehicle was successful. The range was 5,000 miles and it could travel 100 miles per charge.
Proposed a patent for cement houses in August 1908.
1909 After ten years of research, the battery was finally successful. Make a fax telegram. Obtained design patents for raw material machine, fine grinding machine and long kiln.
1910-1914 Completed disc phonograph, damage-free records and diamond records. Completed talkie machine.
1910 The "disk record" was invented. Edison Cement Company ranks fifth in the country.
1912 Invention of "talkies". Developed into a speech phonograph.
1914-1915 Invented the comprehensive manufacturing method of carbolic acid. The gramophone and the talking machine are combined into a remote writing machine, and one telephone can automatically record the other party's speech. Suggest new teaching methods. The West Orange laboratory burned down and was rebuilt within a month. Set up a chemical factory to manufacture benzene, indigo oil, etc. on its own.
1915-1918 Completed 39 inventions, the most famous of which are torpedo mechanical devices, flamethrowers and underwater periscopes.
1928 Successfully extracted rubber from wild grass.