Edison was the first person in human history to make use of a large number of production principles and electrical engineering research laboratories to patent inventions, which had a far-reaching impact on the world. His invention of the phonograph, movie camera and electric light had a great influence on the world.
He had more than 2,000 inventions and 1000 patents in his life. Edison was named the ninth among 100 people who influenced the United States by the authoritative American periodical Atlantic Monthly.
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The story of the great inventor Edison:
1, naive and curious to hatch chickens
Once, when it was time for dinner, Edison still didn't come back. My parents are worried and look around. It was not until the evening that I found him in the hut next to the yard. When his father saw him lying motionless in a haystack full of eggs, he asked Edison what he was doing. Little Edison replied that he was incubating chickens. It turned out that he was surprised to see that hens could hatch chicks, and he always wanted to try it himself.
At that time, his father pulled him up with anger and laughter and told others that chickens could not be hatched. On the way home, he asked inexplicably, "Why can hens hatch chicks and I can't?" ?
2. The first taste test
When Edison was young, he often went to play in the mill of his neighbor Muir Winchester's house. One day, in Winchester's mill, he saw Winchester doing a flying device experiment with a balloon. This experiment fascinated Edison. He thinks that if a person's stomach is full of qi, he will surely ascend to heaven.
A few days later, Edison mixed several chemical raw materials and gave them to his father's assistant, Michael Oates. Edison told Michael Oates that people would fly after eating this kind of food, and Oates almost fainted after eating Edison's "flying agent". Edison was whipped by his father, and his parents were vigilant, advising their children not to play with Edison and stay away from him. ?
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