A Brief History of Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (English: Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931) was an American electrotechnician and entrepreneur who patented a number of important inventions and was honored by the media as the "Wizard of Menlo Park". He was the first person in history to utilize the principle of mass production and industrial research laboratories to produce invention patents. The following is my carefully organized brief story of Thomas Edison, I hope it can help you!
The family was poor, and only read three months in school in his life. But he grew up loving science, his own hard work, obsessed with invention, officially registered inventions up to 1328 kinds of inventions, known as the world's invention king. His inventions not only rely on ingenuity, but also rely on hard scientific practice. For example, when he invented the electric light, just collect information, used 200 notebooks; in order to find the right filament, has used copper wire, platinum wire and so on more than 1,600 kinds of materials, but also used the hair and a variety of different bamboo, and finally selected a Japanese bamboo, after burning charcoal, become the original filament. As he himself said, "Invention is one percent inspiration plus 99 percent blood and sweat."
I. The Invention of the Phonograph
One morning in the fall of 1877, Edison came from the United States, a place called Mero country, to a magazine editorial office in New York. He was carefully holding a small, oddly shaped object. The little thing had a long metal bar on it, a larger wheel at one end, and a small handle at the other. Edison cranked the shaker around, then wrapped a small sheet of tinfoil around the cylinder, fitted it with a small needle, and sang a baby-hypnotizing song into it. When the action was completed, the machine revolved again, and it actually re-sang the hypnotic song word for word. It is not enough to describe the first feelings of those who were there, to say that they were amazed.
There was great merriment, and all the editorial staff shouted to each other that Edison had brought in a talking monster. In a short time, journalists from every newspaper in the city came like a tidal wave, all clamoring to see the most novel machine in the world, and for a while the newspaper offices were crowded to the rafters. The invention, once publicized, aroused a rapid and great frenzy in the community for several months. The railroads ran special cars to visit it. Many people began to disbelieve the invention, suspecting that he had first hidden something inside that could talk to deceive people. A church bishop recited a string of specialized terms from the Bible at top speed into a radio dial, and when these terms were repeated word for word from the machine, they were convinced that it was not half false.
This is what happened when the world's first phonograph was introduced. People marveled at the inventor, Edison was called a "demon". In fact, the "demon" this nickname is far from the phonograph this invention only, but with his entire life. Because his inventions are too many. Electric light, telephone, movie, telegraph, generator, storage battery, typewriter, magnetite separator, pressure gauge and so on, are his invention. According to incomplete statistics, since he invented the first automatic counting machine in 1869 to 1910, he a **** received 1,328 kinds of invention patents, about this period, every eleven days he has an invention. Because of this, he was rightly called a "demon".
But where did the real magic come from? He himself said: "One point of inspiration, 99 points of blood and sweat." Tenacious perseverance, amazing diligence, is where his real "magic".
Second, the story of Edison's growth
The teenager Thomas Edison, born in 1847 in the United States of America's Ottawa State. He had only been in elementary school for three months. The school teacher called him "stupid" and so did his friends and family. His mother didn't believe this, and took it upon herself to be his teacher and direct him to some books. Before the age of twelve, he had read a number of difficult books, and his father guided him through Newton's principles.
The education and influence of the family made him develop a diligent spirit and amazing perseverance from childhood. Edison loved science. He was very young in the cellar of his house, stored hundreds of bottles for various experiments, built a small laboratory. He spent all the money he usually saved on buying chemical supplies and chemical instruments. But this money alone could not meet the needs of the experiment, so he went to the train as a paperboy. He boarded the train early in the morning and returned home after nine o'clock in the evening, and could not rest until late at night after the experiment. Later, he found that there is a smoking room in the luggage car on the train is not used, he will be home in the cellar of the experiments moved to this up, insist on doing chemical experiments.
Here, he also learned to use a printing machine installed here, and was able to use the telegraph number to record local news, and ran a newspaper. The paper was very popular and sold well, and he was only twelve years old at the time. One day the train shook and the baggage slipped, dropping one of his experimental phosphorus rods to the ground, and the car immediately caught fire. The fire was extinguished by those who arrived on the scene, but the conductor deafened him and crippled him for life. He also kicked the contents of his "four-wheeled laboratory" and "traveling printing room" under the car.
Difficulties and setbacks did not affect Edison's determination to engage in scientific experiments, he built a laboratory at home. Being electrocuted and burning his clothes was a common occurrence in the experiment. Once, his face was nitric acid burned out of shape. Even then he was never discouraged. The earliest efforts made by Edison greatly contributed to his later inventions. But, like other great inventors, the road Edison traveled was uneven. He worked as a night telegraph operator. Spent much of his energy at bookstalls and libraries. But having lost his job several times, he finally had to join a friend in New York.
Edison traveled to New York without a lot of trouble. At this time, he did not even have a small amount of money in his pocket. He was so hungry that he had to ask for some tea to drink, which was his first meal after arriving in New York. It took him a long time to find a friend, but his friend was also in the midst of unemployment. Edison, who was starving, had a poor appearance, was dressed in rags, and was looked down upon.
Then he was allowed to sleep at night in a battery room. It happened to be set up indoors a communication machine to publish the market price, in the morning of the third day of his arrival, the machine malfunctioned, because of his attention to study, and soon helped people to repair the machine, and was left, which found a job. From then on, he worked hard, working with others to reform, the market price of communication machine and become famous.
Soon after, he opened a small factory to produce this communication machine, and gradually embarked on the road of scientific research.
Third, Edison and Tesla's story
In 1888, the American electrical engineers Tesla and Westin decided to develop the cause of alternating current. Edison was fiercely opposed to the use of alternating current (AC) for the sake of his DC business, and nearly killed the use of AC in the cradle, delaying the progress of human civilization.
He set up a huge laboratory, hired schoolchildren to go out on the streets to catch kittens and puppies and other livestock to do experiments, and brutally put them under the alternating current to electrocute them. He also alienated officials at the New York State Penitentiary and got them to agree to change the hangings to electrocutions, i.e., switching to electrocution with alternating current. Due to inexperience, the charge used by the authorities was so weak that the prisoners were only half electrocuted. According to media reports at the time, the horrific sight was much more gruesome than hanging. From then on, alternating current was notorious. The promotion and application of alternating current was in serious trouble.
In the face of continuous slander and attacks by Edison, the giant of scientific invention, Tesla and Westing were undaunted. They persisted in their experiments and proved with a large number of facts that alternating current (AC) had the advantages of safety and reliability, etc. In 1893, at the Chicago World's Fair, AC was recognized for its obvious superiority.
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Quotes from Thomas Edison
1, the so-called genius, that is a falsehood, hard work is real.
2. The reading of the spirit, just like the movement of the body.
3, good character is more expensive than gold gold; the former is the natural gift, the latter is the gift of fate.
4. Whenever and however I can, I will never allow myself to be a little discouraged.
5. Books are the legacy of genius to mankind, passed down from generation to generation, and are more of a gift to those who are not yet born.
6. I don't think I'm a genius, I just do my best.
7. Being active and unsatisfied is the first necessity for progress.
8, my philosophy of life is to work, I want to reveal the wonders of nature for the benefit of mankind.
9. My philosophy of life is to work, I want to reveal the mysteries of nature, and in this way to benefit mankind. I know of no better service than this in our short earthly life.
10. He who does not resolve to cultivate thinking loses the greatest pleasure in life.
12, Imagination must be hot in order for it to be molded in the image it receives from something outside.
13, my philosophy of life is to work, I want to hint at the mysteries of nature, and in this way for the benefit of mankind. I know of no better service than this in our short earthly life.
14. There is nothing of real value in this world that can be obtained without hard labor.
15, the secret of education is: respect for students.
16, love will not become indifferent because of reason, and will not be lost because of ambition. It is the second life; it seeps into the soul, warms every blood vessel and beats in every pulse.
17, good motion and dissatisfaction is the first necessity for progress.
18, the most obvious sign of a great man is his strong will.
19, failure is also what I need, it is as valuable to me as success.
20, if people can be sympathetic, charitable, and humane behavior to eliminate the root of the problem, the plague of life can be eliminated more than half.
21, a person should not waste every second, because it can decide you all.
23, failure is also what I need, it is as valuable to me as success. Only after I know all the ways to do a bad job, I know what the way to do a good job is.
24, there is no one thing of real value in the world, can not be obtained through hard labor.
25, the education of the mind, as if the carving of the marble.
26. Failure is what I need, and it is as valuable to me as success. Only after I know all the ways to do a bad job, I know what the way to do a good job is.
27, if you hope to succeed, when the perseverance as a good friend, experience as a counselor, when the heart as a brother, hope for the sentinel.
28, reading in the brain, as if the movement of the body.
29, a person is young, will not think, he will be nothing.
30, there is no expedient that allows one to escape the real labor of thinking.
31, everything new and unusual can cause a pleasure in the imagination, because this kind of thing makes the mind feel a pleasant surprise, satisfies its curiosity, and gives it an idea that it did not have before.
32, any problem has a solution, can not think of anything is not. If you really get to the point where you can't think of anything, you can only blame yourself for being stupid and lazy.
33, in primary, secondary and university things learned, not education itself, but the means of education.
34, although we always sigh at the shortness of life, but we look forward to its end at every stage. Childhood looks forward to adulthood, adulthood looks forward to becoming a family, and then want to be rich, followed by the hope of obtaining a position of honor, and finally want to go back to the past.
35. If I have ever more or less inspired some people's . Efforts, our work, once more or less or less extend the scope of human understanding, and thus add a point of joy to the world, then I am also satisfied.
36. I have never been willing to abandon my life of struggle. I attach the greatest importance to the experience of struggle, and especially to the pleasure derived from overcoming difficulties; one has to pass through difficulties first, and then step into the good world, before one feels useful and comfortable.
37, modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard of virtue.
38, surprise is the seed of science.
39. There is nothing of real value in the world that can be obtained without hard labor.
40, my philosophy of life is work, I want to reveal the wonders of nature for the benefit of mankind.
41, the sense of honor is a good quality, and therefore only those who are endowed with noble and positive or well-educated people.
42, the cultivation of character is the main purpose of education, although it can not be considered the only purpose.
43, life is too short, things are such a lot, can not go into both?
44. If you can cite one person who is thoroughly satisfied, I can tell you he is a failure.
45, I am always reluctant to abandon my struggle for life, I attach great importance to the experience of struggle, especially after the victory over the difficulties of the pleasant, a person has to go through the difficulties, and then step into the smooth, only to feel useful, comfortable.
46, education is like carving in marble.
47, genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent blood and sweat.
48, a person has to go through the difficulties first, and then step into the smooth situation, only to feel useful and comfortable.
49. I have never made an accidental invention in my life. All my inventions are the result of careful thought and rigorous testing.
50, if a person in the hours of excellent results your will come back very happy.
51, hypocrisy and fraud is the mother of all evil.
52, life is too short, to do too much, I have to scramble.
53. Surprise is the seed of science.
54. Friendship enhances happiness and alleviates pain; for it multiplies our joy and shares our worries.
55, life in the world is short, to this short life, our best reward is work.
56, reading for wisdom, like gymnastics for the body.
57, there is no one thing of real value in the world that can be obtained without hard labor.
58, to find excuses for others, but never find excuses for themselves.
59, the education of the mind, like sculpture of the marble sculpture.
60, ascent will be inferior, self-esteem is too high to achieve success, and therefore successful people must cultivate the mindset, focus on everything, which is the point of success.
61, who wishes to spend his old age with honor and comfort, he must think of the day when he is young; so that, in old age, he will remember that he was young.
62. Every man makes a long list of what virtues and good character his friends should possess, but few are willing to cultivate their own character according to their own list.
63. Books are to wisdom what gymnastics is to the body.
64, Good motion and dissatisfaction are the first necessities of progress.
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