Thomas Edison’s Life
Thomas Edison had over twelve hundred patents, and one of his brightest ideas ever was the light bulb. His invention was so bright that it was blinding to everyone who saw that the ideas he had were no longer foolish (Sullivan). This Light Bulb idea really set Edison up for success. With this wonderful invention/patent, he would make the world an even better place with not just one invention/patent , but twelve hundred patients. No matter how old Edison was he was still willing to make the world a better place. Thomas Edison helped people and helped make America a better place through his inventions and patents.
Early-Life
Growing up, Thomas was one of those children that did not have everything and lived in a strict
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Around 1880, he started the Edison Illuminating Company, which he hoped that he could give the cities power and light (Sullivan). His whole goal was to help make cities grow and help make America expand (History.com Staff). When this was going on he was having trouble finding money. People would tell others how bad Edison really was and that he would make all of the banks go dry.
People did not always see Edison as an inventor. They saw him as a man trying to break a bank. Edison banks did not want to loan him the money for this soon to be one of the very best inventions known to mankind. Even though people accused him of not making any money and blowing the money on patterns and business ideas he was still was able to make that negative stuff into inspiration and powered through it to prove them all wrong. He made the world people live in today the best place that it could be (History.com Staff). If it was not for his society we could not be able to see stuff at night without light bulbs and people need power plants to give the consumers electricity to have light (Sullivan).People in society still think Edison was trying to help society grow and other think different. Nobody is the same so it makes sense if we have different results
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The light bulb helped make America a great place because he was able to take a regular idea and make it into something that we still use today. With his knowledge, he could really help shape and form American and the world to what it is today. People at first did not think Edison could do what he has done for us,/but was still able to make the inventions into reality. Overall, Edison is and always will be called Great American. (History.com Staff) Now coming onto the very next great invention that shaped America as we all know it is the Storage Battery. The storage battery was a battery that Edison wanted for the cars such as a Motel T. This was supposed to help make the car start under its own power. This helped shape American and the world today because we still are using that very same invention in our own cars today (Sullivan). It is a necessity that and people could be lost if people did not have them. It would be crazy to see somebody going to start their car with an actual hand crank. So overall Edison helped shape the world as we know it ( Greene