“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” (get help for quote) Thomas Edison was a great American and a inventor. Edison almost never gave up and tried his hardest while working. Work always came first for Edison, he had devoted his entire life to it. Edison had a colorful mind and was bound to become a inventor. Edison made his first invention in New York (“Bio.com”). He made a stock ticker that synchronized the stock ticker’s transaction (“Bio.com”). Edison showed the stock company and they were so impressed they paid him for the rights to the invention. Edison quit his current job to focus on inventing. He made his first laboratory and manufacturing facility in Newark, New Jersey after he quit his job.