What type of scientist was Thomas Edison?

Question

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Answer 1

He was a physicist.

Answer 2

Was Thomas Edison A Scientist

Answer 3

Thomas Edison, Inventor

* Born: 11 February 1847
* Birthplace: Milan, Ohio
* Died: 18 October 1931 (natural causes)
* Best Known As: The man who invented the light bulb

Name at birth: Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Edison was the great genius inventor of the electrical age, a man whose hundreds of inventions made him a public giant in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among Edison's most famous inventions are the first practical long-lasting light bulb and the phonograph; he also helped refine and develop other inventions like motion picture cameras, the stock ticker and the typewriter. By the end of his life Edison had registered 1093 patents and had made millions from his inventions and the businesses he built on them. He is especially known for his work with electricity, and the story of his struggles to find the right filament for the first working light bulb are legendary. Edison's labs were located in Menlo Park, New Jersey, leading to his nickname of "The Wizard of Menlo Park." Edison is also famous for being a dogged worker: he often slept no more than four hours per night and made the famous statement, "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Edison became close friends with another inventor/businessman, Henry Ford -- the two often vacationed together and had adjoining winter homes in Fort Myers, Florida... Edison's name lives on in several modern companies including Consolidated Edison ("Con-Ed")... Edison had a public rivalry with another electrical genius, Nikola Tesla... Louis Lumiére is another man who helped make movies a part of modern life.

Answer 4

Thomas Edison was not a scientist. He was a business person who dabbled in science and took credit as an inventor.

One motto: "never waste time inventing things that people would not want to buy."

He never received formal training in any science. Although many claim he was the greatest American inventor of all time, there are several who give stories of how he tended to take credit for ideas and technology that did not originate in his mind, but in those around him (especially employees who could not fight him in court).

"It must be said that Edison used other inventors' ideas much more freely than he shared his own. For example, the wax cylinder phonograph was first patented by Chichester A. Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter (1886), whose offer of a joint venture Edison rejected; the disc "gramophone" was first patented by Emile Berliner (1887); and even the so-called "Edison Effect," the observed emission of electrons from a hot filament, was actually discovered by an Edison engineer named William J. Hammer (1883)."

Answer 5

Thomas Edison was an inventor

Answer 6

Thomas Edison was probably the world's greatest inventor. He had a patent on 1,093 inventions. In addition to the electric light, he also invented the phonograph * , a camera to take motion pictures, a cement mixer, the automatic * telegraph, and he improved Alexander Graham Bell's telephone

Answer 7

Dont Refer wikipedia, or ur school text book for everything.. sometimes it lies.. to me Nicola Tesla was the greatest scientist ever !! Edison was a good businessman hiring scientist to work under him and patented them.. tats it...

Answer 8

He was a smart, clever son of a gun with some ingenuity.

Answer 9

Really he wasn't, all he did was work on inventions. He did that very well.

Answer 10

he was more of an inventor/scientist

u will find details here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison