Edison, thousands of inventions remain, and that kind of genius is 1% inspiration and 99% sweat.

Photo of the inventor Thomas Edison, who was born in Milan, Ohio on February 1847+0 1.

Thomas Alva Edison is an inventor different from any other inventor in history, and his influence can still be felt in your daily life. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 1847+0 1. His inventions, including the perfection of the electric light bulb and the phonograph, fundamentally changed modern civilization and made the 20th century one of the most progressive times in history.

Illustrations of Thomas Edison's early version of the phonograph. /Photos.com/iStock through Getty Images

Although Thomas Edison's most lasting contribution to modern life will always be the incandescent light bulb, he always won 1093 patents, which he and his employees gave life to. Some of Thomas Edison's inventions include:

Thomas Edison tried illustrations of electric lights at his wedding. /Photos.com/iStock through Getty Images

Of the two marriages, the first was 187 1 to 1884 when Mary Stilwell died, and the second was 1886 when she had six children with Mina Miller and Edison.

Edison tried to instill a love of knowledge in every child, although his methods were not always kind. Edison warned his daughter Madeleine to answer homework questions at breakfast. If she answers too slowly or incorrectly, she will touch her with a hot spoon in her hand.

For one of his sons, Thomas Alva Thomas Alva Edison Jr., this environment is obviously too unfavorable. He dropped out of preparatory school at the age of 65,438+07, and was later accused by the media of marketing suspicious inventions, such as Vitalizer, a headdress that promised to make the wearer think faster. 1904, the post office accused the dealers in Vitalije of postal fraud. In order to prevent his son from further tarnishing the surname, Edison began to give his son pocket money to keep him away from the spotlight.

/kloc-In the 1990s of 0/9, Edison's DC power and nikola tesla's AC power competed for hegemony. During this period, Edison and his supporters thought that alternating current was dangerous and tried to prove it by electrocuting animals. Of course, DC is also easy to kill. 1903 As we all know, electricity was used to kill Topsy, an elephant in the circus. After killing an audience, he was marked for execution. Although Edison is often mentioned to kill animals, the Smithsonian Institution claimed in an article on 20 17 that he didn't witness the story with his own eyes or even heard of it. However, a company working under the banner of Edison manufacturing company is filming this sad display, and people mistakenly think that the inventor has something to do with it. But by that time, the war between Tesla and Edison had ended and the more universal AC power source won.

When Edison was 28 years old, he bought a housing development project in Laritan, New Jersey, and used the property as the site of his house and laboratory. It was there that Edison and his staff invented more than 400 kinds of articles in ten years. But this is also the birthplace of tragedy. Edison's first wife, Mary, died of morphine overdose in 1884, when they tried to control the pain after the birth of their third child. After that, Edison kept his distance from the area and destroyed his house and facilities. The town was renamed Edison, New Jersey on 1954. Today, it is home to Thomas Edison Center in Menlo Park, where visitors can see many of Edison's inventions.

Thomas Edison had six brothers and sisters:

Edison 1847 was the seventh and last child of his parents Samuel Edison and Nancy Elliot Edison when he was born in Milan, Ohio. Unfortunately, Edison didn't know all his brothers and sisters. Of his parents' seven children (Marion, William Pitt, Harriet Ann, Carlisle, Samuel, Eliza and Thomas), only four survived. Carlisle, Samuel and Eliza all died in childhood.

Pictures of young Thomas Edison and the early phonograph. /Library of Congress

When Thomas Edison was seven years old, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. Edison's middle name Alva is abbreviated as "Al". He is a selfless student, and finally his mother teaches at home. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, he decided to travel all over the country and send and receive information about trains and federal troops by telegraph during the civil war. This experience inspired his passion for invention all his life.

Photograph of the inventor Thomas Edison. /Wiki * * * Enjoy resources/public domain

Edison suffered from severe hearing loss since he was a child. No one knows exactly what caused it, although Edison himself blamed it on a train conductor, who once picked him up with his ears and caused damage. More likely, the ear infection affected his hearing. No matter what happens, Edison said that his hearing loss led to his incredible ability to concentrate and concentrate deeply on any task at hand.

Photograph of American industrialist Henry Ford, who was a friend of Thomas Edison before his death. /Wiki * * * Enjoy resources/public domain

During his career, Edison became friends with Henry Ford, the pioneer of automobiles. As Edison's health began to deteriorate, he was finally relegated to a wheelchair, and Ford bought one for himself so that they could compete. 193 1 When Edison's last days seemed to be numbered, some people thought that Ford had Edison's son Charles try to capture his father's last breath in a test tube. Although Charles didn't do this, Edison's room did have a test tube at the last moment when he was near the bed. Charles asked to seal them with paraffin, and he gave Ford one. It was labeled "Edison's Last Breath?" Currently located in the Henry Ford Museum in dearborn, Michigan.