Thomas Edison
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”. Thomas Edison never believed in letting failure stop him from making his dream a reality. Edison is known as one of the world’s greatest inventors of the electrical age. He gave the world over 5 life changing inventions’, the Storage Battery, Telephone, Electric light and power, the Telegraph, and the Phonograph, that would start an entire chain of ideas’ that would advance technology by generations’; with touch screen phones that send messages, call, and play videos on the internet. Batteries that actually last a long time. Electric power and light everywhere and in everything. So in my paper about this great- or not so great man; we are going to talk about him,
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He was the last of seven children. His father was Samuel Edison, an exiled political activist from Canada. His mother Nancy Elliott Edison was an accomplished teacher who taught Edison all his school life till college. Sadly as Edison grew up he had a bad case of Scarlet Fever and many ear infections’; causing him to be nearly deaf all his adult life.
Thomas Edison had always learned from his failures’. He would always write down all of his attempts and looked back at them to try and improve his work. He got his “no-give up” attitude from his mother, Nancy Elliott Edison who homeschooled him all of his school life. Edison filled over 4000 notebooks’ with his work. With 3200 of them being large ledger type volumes; and 800 being small regular notebooks’. He constantly went over his notebooks to find mistakes to fix or to keep reading to try and fix his current invention(s).
Thomas Edison made the Storage Battery because he was extremely interested in battery design since he was a telegraph inventor. Sadly as he spent many hours on the invention he couldn’t come over the obstacle of replenishing chemicals’ and electrodes’ in wet cells. In the 1890’s automobiles’ started to become popular with the people and that’s what inspired Edison to start experimenting with the battery again. Knowing how heavy the current battery was, he decided to experiment with the alkaline electrolytes to develop a much lighter battery that also lasted longer. It took him a decade but he did