Wyatt Cheung 620
10/20/17
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was a smart scientist that would soon make a way to light the world without using candles in 1879 when he was 32 years old. He was an intelligent child as he was kicked out of school and then was homeschooled by his mom, who was in fact a teacher. She teached him which made him who he is today. In this essay, I will be talking about Thomas Edison’s life, their work, and how it perceived today.
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. In his childhood, he and his family moved to family moved to Port Huron, Michigan in 1854. Thomas went to school there but was soon pulled out of school by his mom due to his hyperactivity and was difficult to handle. His mom homeschooled him which was a “major influence” later in his life. When he was 11 Edison read many books covering many subjects independently teaching himself. At age 12 he sold newspapers and created his own but soon was kicked out of where he sold it because of experimenting and making a setting a fire on a car. He became interested in science when he saved a kid from getting ran over by a train, got learned how to use a telegraph. At 15 years old, he was working as a telegrapher. During the first world war, he moved throughout the Midwest being in place of those people that had gone to war. In is his spare time he studied and experimented with the telegraph becoming used to electrical science. Edison turned to a full inventor when he made a stock ticker and was bought for 40,000 dollars in 1869. In 1871 Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell and they had three children, Marion, Thomas and William. In 1884, Mary passed away of a suspected brain tumor at the age of 29. In 1886, Edison married Mina Miller. In 1870, Edison set up his first small laboratory in Newark, New Jersey. In 1876, Edison moved his growing operations to Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Thomas Edison made inventions as he was an inventor. Edison worked with his wife Mary as a partner but died in 1884. Thomas discovered and created a light motion picture. "I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear.” This is what Thomas Edison said when he was creating the light motion picture projector. Edison worked with William K. L. Dickson. After a lot of work, they made the invention. But when William was helping others make better versions pf the light motion picture projector, Edison fired him. The invention that change the world was the electric light bulb changed the world. The invention of light bulb changed the world by illuminating the night and making it able for people to do many things. It started when Edison based his bulb on the other creators of the light bulb which some of them failed. Edison bought Woodward and Evans' patent and made improvements on his design. He was granted a patient and marketed for everybody to buy it. This helps things today so we can work and do activities at night or in the dark.
