1882, after the incandescent lamp was fully recognized by the market, Edison's electric company began to establish the power grid, thus starting the "power age". Edison's power company relies on direct current to transmit electricity. Soon, communication technology began to appear, but Edison never realized the value of communication. With his prestige, Edison gave speeches everywhere, spared no effort to attack alternating current, and even publicly ridiculed alternating current for the sole purpose of being an electric chair to kill people! This made Westinghouse, which developed communication technology, unable to lift its head for a while.
But a moment is not a lifetime. Later, people who worshipped Edison were surprised to find that in the face of iron facts, alternating current was much stronger than direct current! So people became angry, and the employees and shareholders of Edison Electric Company were even more ashamed and decided to delete the word "Edison" from the company name.
Edison was a great inventor and electrician. His invention of electric light, telephone, telegraph and film had a far-reaching impact on the world power industry. In addition, he has made extraordinary achievements in other aspects, founded his own company, invented movies, phonographs and so on. On the fiftieth anniversary of Edison's invention of the light bulb, Edison suddenly fainted while giving a speech on the stage and died soon after. Then how did Edison die?
1 931August1day, Edison felt unwell. According to the doctor's diagnosis, he suffers from many diseases at the same time: chronic nephritis, uremia and diabetes. The medical bulletin published in the The New York Times on August 4th said, "Mr Edison is like a ship sailing in a dangerous channel. Maybe he can pass safely or hit the rocks. " 65438+1October 65438+March Edison hit a "reef" and fell into a coma. He was awake for a while before he died. "It's beautiful over there," he said. 193 1 year1year1October 18, Edison died at the age of 84.
On Edison's deathbed, doctors and many of Edison's relatives and friends sat around his bed. Seeing his breathing getting weaker and weaker, his heart finally stopped beating. But just as the doctor was about to announce his death, he suddenly sat up again and said a very strange sentence: "I didn't expect it to be so beautiful there." With these words, he died.