Thomas Alfa Edison was born at three o'clock in the morning in a snowstorm in February 1847+0 1. His father took him to the street to brag to others. Everyone calls him Al. Edison loved to ask questions when he was a child, and he often asked some strange questions, which made people feel very annoyed, whether it was family or pedestrians on the road. Mother told him that the goose was hatching eggs, and Al thought that if the goose could hatch eggs, so could I. A few days later, mom and dad found Al crouching in the wooden house, wondering what he was doing. When the family found Al incubating eggs, everyone burst into laughter.
When Al was eight years old, he went to primary school, but after only three months of classes, he dropped out. When Al is in class, his mother is often called to the school to talk to the teacher. This is because Al often asks some questions that the teacher thinks are strange. The teacher thought he was a mentally retarded child, so his mother decided to teach Al herself and was determined to make Al a great genius. In this way, Al began his self-study course, and Al was well taught by his mother. Later, Al also got permission to set up a laboratory in the basement. In order to prevent others from tampering with his experiments, Al also came up with a clever idea, that is, to put poison labels on the bottles of each experiment.
One morning when he was twelve years old, Al suddenly said to his mother, Mom, I want to sell newspapers, okay? Mom was shocked and dad was angry. But at Al's repeated requests, his parents finally agreed. He happily ran to the railway company and got permission to sell newspapers on the train. It's a hundred kilometers from Port Sheron to Detroit. After working as a newspaper boy in the car for several months, Al opened two stores in Detroit, one selling magazines and the other selling vegetables, fruits and cream. And agreed to share the prize money with them. Soon, another train was added to the railway, and Al sent a newsboy to sell it. In this way, a newsboy of 12 years old unconsciously became a young capitalist.
Second, young inventors
Edison once saved the children of Marvin clermont station master. In order to repay Edison, the stationmaster taught Edison telegraph technology and made him a telegraph technician. Soon after, Edison went to the telegraph office as a telegraph operator. Because he worked at night, he could do experiments during the day. The telegraph office stipulated that he should send a letter to each other every hour. In order to sleep, he invented a machine that can automatically send telegrams to help him post letters, but he was finally found and dismissed. In this way, Edison often lost his job and became a wandering telecom mechanic, and his life was very unstable. One day, he heard the good news that South America was recruiting telecom technicians, but when they were going to South America, an old uncle told them that it was not good there, so the idea of going to South America disappeared, so he returned to his hometown-Port of Rest. During his wandering, Edison also studied hard, did experiments, studied and worked for him.
During Edison's return to China, his good friend Adams helped him find a job as a telecom mechanic in Boston, where Edison invented the automatic voting machine, which was Edison's first patented invention. Automatic voting machine is a machine with green and red buttons. Just press the green button for "Yes" and the red button for "No". After the machine was finished, he went to Washington to do experiments with the machine. After arriving in Washington, the experimental results were very good, but members of the Committee still told Edison that the machine was not very practical. Sitting on the train home, he thought, "Most of the inventions that inventors come up with in their minds are not practical, and only inventions that naturally arise from social needs make sense." Edison's first invention, though it failed in this way, taught Edison a valuable lesson. He became a successful inventor in the future because of the policies established at that time.
Third, great contribution.
Edison had 3,000 inventions in his life, of which 1328 was patented. The following is his main invention.
(A), the invention of electric light
Edison for the invention of the electric light, one hundred inventors, led by the genius Edison, began to study the electric light around the clock. In order to achieve his goal, he did various experiments, but never achieved the expected results. He used about 65,438+0,600 materials to carbonize and make filaments. 18791October 2 1 day, Edison finally completed the electric lamp with carbonized cotton filament, which was designated as the greatest "electric lamp memorial day" in the 20th century.
(2) The invention of the tram
1878, Edison watched the industrious farmers pulling a carriage full of crops on the uneven road. This incident triggered Edison's motivation to invent the tram. At the beginning of 1880, he put up a kilometer-long railway track in an open space behind the institute. After many failures, Edison's tram was finally nearing completion day by day. Ferad, chairman of the North Pacific Railway Company, signed a contract with Edison. It was decided to build a railway track in the western agricultural area, but due to the commercial failure of Ferad, this plan was not realized soon. Edison's method was adopted by new york Central Company a few years later, which made great contributions to the future development of subway.
(3) the invention of the film
After the invention of the phonograph, Edison began to study the invention of the film. At that time, movies were called shadow play. Sometimes Edison would go to the horse races. Once he made a bet with a friend that the horse would float in the air for some distance when it was running. In order to get the answer, they installed many cameras beside the runway to shoot the horse's movements in turn. This is the origin of movies. The background of the film is mainly composed of speeding trains or Niagara Falls, only occasionally interspersed with some special effects. Later,
Fourth, the reasons for success
Everyone knows that Edison was a great inventor, but no one knows why he succeeded. Now I will tell you why Edison succeeded. Edison used to be a child with a big brain hole and loved to ask questions. Some people say that he is an idiot, but others say that he thought for a long time before asking questions. This is the first reason for his success, and his personality is another reason for his success. He often works 100 hours a week, and sometimes he doesn't sleep for three consecutive days. His personality is optimistic and clear. He never gets discouraged when he encounters setbacks in the experiment, but will stick to it until it is finished. Besides, Edison was not a utilitarian. When he got his salary, he didn't even go to see if he had any money. He just stuffed it into his pocket involuntarily. These are the reasons for Edison's success.
Exhausted one's literary talent
Jiang Yan, a famous writer in the Southern Dynasties, wrote many touching poems in his early years.
His masterpieces, Hate Fu and Biefu, all have a strong sentimental mood, and describe the sadness and parting of various characters in society. "Hate Fu" summarized the blood and tears of many poor intellectuals at that time, and expressed their dissatisfaction with the reality at that time in a tortuous way. Biefu is more mature in art than Hatred Fu. In particular, famous lyrical sentences such as "Spring grass is green, spring water is green, Nanpu sends you away, what's the harm" are more infectious.
The ideas reflected in these works have a deep relationship with his early situation. Jiang Yan experienced the Song Dynasty. Qi Liang period. He attached himself to Wang Liu in his early years, but he was not reused. He was so depressed that he was framed and sent to prison. Hate fu,
Biefu is the true expression of his life feelings in this period.
However, in his later years, Jiang Yan became attached to Xiao Daocheng and Xiao Yan. I gradually became a big official and lived a prosperous life, so that my literary talent dropped significantly and it was difficult to write good articles again.