Thomas Alva Edison (English: Thomas Alva Edison, 1847- 193 1 year old), an American inventor and entrepreneur, holds many important invention patents. He was awarded the title of "Wizard of Menlo Park" by the media. He was the first inventor in the world to use the principle of mass production and his industrial research laboratory to produce inventions. He has more than 2000 inventions, including phonograph, movie camera and tungsten light bulb, which have great influence on the world. In the United States, Edison has 1093 patents, while his total number of patents in the United States, Britain, France and Germany exceeds 1500. General Electric Company was founded in 1892. He is the greatest inventor of all time. So far, no one in the world can break the world record of the number of invention patents he created.