Thomas Edison Did you know that one of America's greatest inventors acquired over 1,093 patents but, was considered unteachable in his childhood? His name is Thomas Edison and he invented the incandescent light bulb, phonograph, also helped create the telephone. Thomas Edison has an important role in America's industrial revolution. Thomas Edison worked as a young boy as a newsboy near the local railroad. He took some time to learn how telegraph, at age sixteen he was good enough to work full time. Edison travel all across the United States later stopping in Boston, Massachusetts in 1868. He was granted a patent for an electric vote recorder, it was a commercial fail so Edison vowed to only invent things the public would want. Thomas Edison moved to New York in 1869 and developed his first successful invention. Edison was paid $40,000 for his improved stock ticker called the "Universal Stock Printer". In 1871 he opened up a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey. The next five years Edison increased the speed and the efficiency of the telegraph while marrying Mary Stilwell and starting a family. …show more content…
Edison expected a lot from his employes. The first great invention developed by Edison in Menlo Park was the tin foil phonograph. In 1877, Edison worked on a telephone transmitter that greatly improved on Alexander Graham Bell's work with the telephone. It occurred to him that sound could be recorded as indentations on a piece of