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Thomas Edison
Title: Thomas Edison
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1500 | Pages: 6.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison is considered one of the greatest inventors in history. He was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847 and died in 1931. During his life he patented 1,093 inventions. Many of these inventions are in use today and changed the world forever. Some of his inventions include telegraphy, phonography, electric lighting and photography. His most famous inventions were the phonograph and the incandescent light bulb.
Edison did some of his greatest work at Menlo Park. …showed first 75 words of 1500 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1500 total…contradictory nature of his forceful personality, as well as such eccentricities as his ability to catnap anywhere, contributed to his legendary status. By the time he was in his middle 30s Edison was said to be the best-known American in the world. When he died he !
was the venerated and mourned as the man who, more than any other, had laid the basis for the technological and social revolution of the modern electrical world.
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