Thomas Edison Research Paper

Born on February 11, 1847 Thomas Edison grew from humble beginnings to become a world renowned inventor in major technology. Some of his work included the telegraph, phonograph, electric light bulb, alkaline storage batteries, and the kinetograph. He developed most of these inventions in his lab in Menlo Park, earning himself the nickname, “The Wizard of Menlo Park”. He died on October 31, 1931, in West Orange, New Jersey. Even though Edison shouldn't have become great due to his back ground of ADHD and near deafness, Edison became great while facing many trials and tribulations. Thomas was pulled from grammar school because he was deemed "difficult" by his school, yet his mother believed otherwise and taught him herself to be great and overcome

His father was an extradited Canadian political activist, while his mother was a consummated school teacher. Thomas’ mother played a huge role in shaping him in his early life. At an early age Edison formed an ailment in both of his ears due to scarlet fever and many ear infections, leading him to be almost completely deaf as an adult. Edison would later recount as an adult, with variations on the story, that he lost his hearing due to a train incident where his ears were injured. As a child Edison’s family moved to Port Huron, Michigan where he attended public school for 12 weeks before shortly being pulled out by his mother. A hyperactive child, Edison was easily distracted causing his teacher to deem him “difficult”. His mother quickly pulled him from school to teach him from home

He then began to work on inventing devices that would help make things possible for him despite his deafness. From 1870 to 1875, Edison worked out of Newark, New Jersey, where he developed telegraph-related products for both Western Union Telegraph Company and later on various telegraph companies. One of those inventions included a printer that would convert the electrical signals to letters. In the early part of 1869 Edison quit his job in the telegraph industry to remain focused on inventing. In 1877, Edison developed the carbon transmitter, a device that improved the audibility of the telephone by making it possible to transmit voices at higher volume and a lot clearer. That same year, his work with the telegraph and telephone led him to invent the phonograph. In 1878 attempted to do what scientists struggled with for 50 years already, creating a safe electric form of light. He made a breakthrough in October 1879 with a bulb that used a platinum filament, and in the summer of 1880 he found that carbonized bamboo as a viable alternative for the filament, which proved to be the key to a long-lasting and affordable light bulb. In 1881, he set up an