An American inventor and an informed businessman who invented the incandescent electric bulb and the phonograph is none other than Thomas Edison. A man who contributed a lot in the field of science and technology and gave birth to many devices in areas such as electrical energy generation, mass communication, sound recording, animated images and many others.
On February 11, 1847, Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, the United States. He was the youngest of Samuel’s seven children and Nancy Edison. His father, Samuel was an exiled political activist of Canada and his mother Nancy Edison was a successful teacher.
Edison was diagnosed with a scarlet of scarlet as well as hearing handicaps to a very young age and almost deaf as an adult.
In 1854, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan where he attended public school for 2-3 months. His professor entitled him as a hyperactive child, subject to distraction. Then, after his mother drew him from school and started his schooling at home. At the age of 11, he showed a hungry appetite to find out, read books on a wide range of topics. During this age, Thomas Edison has developed a self-education process and started learning independently.
At the age of 12, Thomas Edison posted his own little newspaper, “Grand Trunk Herald”. He also started conducting chemical experiments in a small laboratory that he installs the train luggage car.
At the age of 22, in 1869, he moved to New York and developed his first invention, an improved stock ticker called the printer of universal actions, which synchronized several ticket transactions in stock. In 18877, he developed a method to record his sound; The phonograph.
Thomas Edison married Mary Stilwell, 16, in 1871, who was an employee in one of his business. He had three Marion Children, Thomas and William.
Thomas Edison Quotes
“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.” – Thomas Edison
“The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.” – Thomas Edison
“Opportunity is missed because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when.” – Thomas Edison
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” – Thomas Edison
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” – Thomas Edison
“Vision without execution is a hallucination.” – Thomas Edison
“Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the things that he can least afford to waste or lose.” – Thomas Edison
“Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.” – Thomas Edison
“Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
“To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.” – Thomas Edison
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas Edison
“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” – Thomas Edison
“Courage is everything. “Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business.” – Thomas Edison
“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.” – Thomas Edison
FINAL WORDS:
Thomas Edison a man who endured until he managed to succeed and he did not stop before having had what he wanted. Most of us give up in life when it seems to be a failure all around and no hope. But Thomas Edison was a man of hope and a strong belief and determination.
At the age of 84, October 18, 1931, Thomas Edison died at home in Glenmont, West Orange, New Jersey. The inhabitants of different countries have mitigated their lights from the region and the house or have turned off their electrical energy to commemorate his death.
He continued the race of life and never abandoned in life. His words have proved to us that we should be brave and intrinsically motivated in life to gain every breed and race that could come.