Essays on Thomas Edison

In 1887, Thomas Edison built an industrial research laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, which was primary research laboratory for the Edison lighting companies. Edison did spend most of his time in the primary laboratory where he was supervising the development of the lighting technology...

I am Thomas Edison. You probably know me best for developing the phonograph and electric light bulb, but I innovated and invented much more. I held 1,093 U.S. patents, and am credited with creating the first industrial research laboratory1. Science and Technology With the kind...

Imagine a world with no light. We use light in our everyday lives. The light bulb was one of the most important inventions. Without it we would would have to use oil lamps and candles, and that would be hard. If we didn’t have the...

Most of the time a student’s achievement in education is measured by grades. Can you achieve more success in life with higher grades? Grades portray what the teacher or professors believe to be the best or worst answer. A student could learn a lot in...

Thomas Edison was born on February 11th, 1847 in Milan Ohio. Thomas Edison did not have an easy childhood during the 1850’s. For Example, when Edison was six year old, he was responsible for starting a fire that ruined the family barn. Edison’s father publically...

Edison was granted a patent for the motion picture camera or “Kinetograph”. He did the electromechanical design while his employee W. K. L. Dickson, a photographer, worked on the photographic and optical development. Much of the credit for the invention belongs to Dickson. In 1891,...

The competition between Nikolas Tesla and Thomas Edison to supply electricity to cities in the late 1880s is often called the ‘War of Currents’, as this battle ultimately decided what type of current became the standard for the generation of electricity today. The battle between...

There goes a saying that: “Adversity causes some men to break while others to break record” (William Arthur Ward). Thomas Edison, being the youngest child of a family which have seven kids, was expelled from school and taught by his mother, sold candy in train...