Thomas Alva Edison

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Thomas Alva Edison

            Thomas Alva Edison is a great inventor in the world and gives big contribution, such as the first electric light inventor. He was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11^th 1847. In 1854 his parent moved to Port Huron, Michigan. He grew up there. When he was child, he just studied for 3 month because his teacher said that he cannot study in school. So his mother taught him by herself. Although he did not study in school, he showed a curiosity about something. He did dissection with animal and made a small laboratory under his house. A year later, he was success made a telegraph. Because he needed a big cost to do experiment, in 12 years old he sold newspaper and candy in the train that operated in Port Huron city and Detroit. He also made a small laboratory in a train railway coach and he did experiment and read some literatures in his spare time.

            In 1861, there was a war between south and north countries. He took an advantage of it by buying an old printing machine. Then he made a weekly herald printing newspaper. This was the first newspaper in train. And it could create 400 per day. In 1868 he got a job as a telegraph operator in Boston. Every his spare time was done to do experiment about technical. In this year he invented the intercom electric system. Thomas Alva Edison obtained the patent right for the first time for electric vote recorder, but it was not too interesting. Then he developed the more commercial invention, stock ticker. He sold it to the company and get 40000 dollar. This profit was used to build a company and laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. In this laboratory he invented many inventions that changed life style of several people in the world.

            In 1877 he invented phonograph. In this year, he focused on electric light because he realized that a light source was needed more by people. He spent 40.000 dollar in two years to do experiment about electric light. He tried around 6000 materials to do experiment. Finally, on October 21th 1879 the first electric light was created that could lit up to 40 hours.

            There are still many useful inventions from Thomas Alva Edison. Over all there are 1.039 patent right inventions such as: telegraph, electric pen, battery, microphone, carbon telephone transmitter, and picture projector, etc. In 1920s, his health was getting bad. He died on October 18^th 1931 in his 84 years old.     

Quotes:

”How many people give up, whereas only need some step more to reach the success”

“I am sure will be success because I am running out of fail experiment”

“I have not failed. I have just found 10.000 ways that won’t work”

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and look like work”

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up”

“Genius in one percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration”

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            After reading this Thomas Alva Edison’s biography, I get much of new knowledge. I think this writing is very good to be read because we can get much knowledge and motivation. On this writing we can find that something impossible can be possible. I believe that something impossible can come true because of the strong will and followed by a real action. Ignoring others twaddle word that want to ruin our belief and always doing our best.

            We have to follow the way Thomas Alva Edison is. Although he fails in many times, he always struggle to prove something great because he believes of his ability. We also can take value that to be success we cannot only wait, but always move and try a variety of ways. I do agree with Thomas word that we will not reach the success before we run out of failure because to be success only need some step before giving up. To be a great person, there must be a great struggle.