“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” This quote means that if you don’t find one way to work things out, there is 10,000 maybe even a million other ways to work things out. Just like Thomas Edison impacted society by inventing the lightbulb, improving the stock printer, and the phonographer. Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Nancy Elliott Edison, Thomas’s mom was a school teacher. He was mostly homeschooled, his mother taught him most of the time. When Edison was 13, he started working at a job at the Grand Trunk Railroad between Port and Detroit, selling newspapers and candy. Thomas almost went deaf when a train conductor lifted him up by his ears and heard something snap and that’s …show more content…
In Boston in 1868 Edison became a telegraph operator for Western Union. When Thomas moved to New York he met Samuel Adams, he had a stock printer in operation already. The stock printer had been broken but Edison repaired it. After this happened Samuel Adams had hired Thomas. Out of this, the association grew the development of the stock that worked very well. For the invention of the stock printer and other inventions, he was hoping to get a few hundred dollars. But he was shocked when received $40,000. Edison used this money to start a new laboratory and factory in Newark, New Jersey. After while he had over 300 employees working at his factory and laboratory. He had as many as 50 inventions at various stages of development and manufacture at one time. Edison’s work would strain his marriage with Mary Stillwell. Edison’s telephone work led to his invention in 1877 of the first device that could record and reproduce sound—the phonograph. He called it “The Talking Machine”. Next Edison focused on the electric light. Edison’s aim was to invent a lamp that would become incandescent, or luminous, as a result of heat passing through it. In October 1879 Edison introduced the modern age of