2006-07-21 21:32:55 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Thomas Alva Edison is the greatest american inventor of all times. He patented over 1300 invents. Without him, we would not have the telephone, radio, telegraph, movies, electricity system and computers!
In 1859, when his mother "could not longer stand the smell of his chemistry lab"(1), Edison took a job as a trainboy on the Grand Trunk Railway and established a new lab in an empty freight car. He was 12 at the time. Edison also began printing a weekly newspaper, which he called the Grand Trunk Herald.
Biography
From The Free Dictionary
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Edison's first inventions were the transmitter and receiver for the automatic telegraph, the quadruplex system of transmitting four simultaneous messages, and an improved stock-ticker system. In 1877 he invented the carbon telephone transmitter (see microphone) for the Western Union Telegraph Company. His phonograph (patented 1878) was notable as the first successful instrument of its kind.
In 1879, Edison created the first commercially practical incandescent lamp (with a carbon filament). For use with it he developed a complete electrical distribution system for light and power, including generators, motors, light sockets with the Edison base, junction boxes, safety fuses, underground conductors, and other devices. The crowning achievement of his work in this field was the Pearl St. plant (1881–82) in New York City, the first permanent central electric-light power plant in the world. He also built and operated (1880) an experimental electric railroad, and produced a superior storage battery of iron and nickel with an alkaline electrolyte.
Other significant inventions include the Kinetoscope, or peep-show machine. Edison later demonstrated experimentally the synchronization of motion pictures and sound, and talking pictures were based on this work.
2006-07-21 21:37:43 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 10⤊ 1⤋
Thomas Alva Edison
2006-07-21 21:38:36 · answer #2 · answered by Gabriel- The God Sent one 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Alva Edison.
2006-07-21 21:36:18 · answer #3 · answered by csucdartgirl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Edison.
2006-07-21 21:36:16 · answer #4 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edison!! He invented over a 1,000 things.
2006-07-21 21:36:23 · answer #5 · answered by ~p♥kes~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The person who invented Viagra !
2006-07-21 21:50:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am.... not to sound conceited but my inventions will change the future also!! im Clinton Adkins ! mark my words!
2006-07-21 21:40:35 · answer #7 · answered by greatguyclinton 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thomas edison
2006-07-21 23:40:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
einstein
2006-07-21 21:36:12 · answer #9 · answered by downdrain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this has nothing to do with chemistry
2006-07-21 21:41:44 · answer #10 · answered by the great man of lake mauvia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋