Famous Inventor

Thomas Alva Edison is one of great inventor of all time. I believe that all of you know him. He is the one invented the light for the world and electricity. Imagine how smart he is? I believe that he is a patient, smart, diligent person and also he struggle for his life. And the most important he never give up even though he fail so many times in his experiment to invent lamp and electricity.

Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan Ohio on February 11, 1847 he was an American inventor, scientist and businessman. He studied in the School of Natural Philosophy and The Cooper Union. He had a hearing problem that causing deafness. When he was a child he sold candy and newspapers on trains running from Port Huron to Detroit, and he sold vegetables to supplement his income. When he was teenager he became a telegraph operator. On December 25, 1871, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell, he had three-children. On February 24, 1886, at the age of thirty nine, Edison married 20-year-old Mina Miller in Akron, Ohio, she was the daughter of inventor Lewis Miller. They also had three-children.

Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey. His first invention was phonograph. Then he built a laboratory named Menlo Park in the same city. The laboratory then became the center of many inventions done by Thomas himself and together with some of his friends. From this lab he invented carbon telephone transmitter, which was next very important part for the invention of telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. But the most important invention he made in this lab was the invention of the light bulb in 1880. After that, he formed Edison Electric Light Company in New York City in 1878. Besides, he was granted the patent of the first Kinetograph, the motion picture camera.

Thomas Alva Edison dedicated his entire life for enlightening the world by his inventions. He struggled hard for human beings and this world. Although he faced so many failures in the process of inventing, he kept going on until he became successful. On October 18, 1931 he died of complications of diabetes.