ENGLISH IV CGT

Students : KEVIN TORRES COLAN

VICTOR MEDINA HUARANCCA
Teacher : José Edgard Barrera Garro
Premises : Lima Norte

2020
 Introduction

Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 and died on October 18,
1931. He was American. He was an inventor, scientist and businessman.

He developed many devices that had influence around the world such as the
phonograph, the film camera or a light bulb, throughout his life recorded 1093
patents. Some inventions had great impact such as electric light and public supply
electric, sound recorder, and cinematography have become powerful new
industries worldwide.

His inventions contributed in particular to telecommunications, such as a battery for

an electric car, electric power, music recorder, and movies. He developed a system
for generating and distributing electrical energy to homes, businesses and
factories, a crucial advance for the world.
A GREAT INFLUENCE FOR US

Our engineering career is greatly

influenced by great scientists like him. In
this final project we going to refer to some
of his inventions and how they influence
our career.

Thomas Edison was always a humble person. In 1859, he worked as a newspaper

vendor on a railroad. In 1862, he worked as a telegraph operator until 1867.
Thomas Edison was a practical and realistic person. He could think of any solution
for any problem.

Thomas Edison was a very intelligent, practical and realistic person. He could think
of any solution for any problem. In our opinion, he was a better inventor than Nikola
Tesla. Some of his qualities are:

 Curiosity

Edison did not attend public school for a long time. One of the reasons was that his
mind often wandered. This made it unsuitable for the traditional school system. So
his mother, a former school teacher, taught him at home. Young Edison loved to
read and was especially interested in science.

 Entrepreneurship

The Grand Trunk Railroad, connecting Port Huron to the nearest big city, Detroit,
played an important role in Edison’s life. It not just provided him with reading
material, but also kindled his entrepreneurial side. Edison obtained the exclusive
right to sell newspapers on the railroad, and after a while he even printed his own
newspaper. This made him realise he had a knack for making businesses work.
Edison kept investing the money he earned into new ventures and was thus able to
constantly upscale his productivity. Throughout his life Edison would eventually
found 14 companies, among them General Electric, which is still one of the
largest companies in the world.
  Imagination

Though Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to patent the telephone in
1876. Edison improved the transmission of the speaker’s voice across the wire.
The experiments that led to this improvement used a diaphragm with an
embossing point that was held against paraffin paper. He took these elements and
incorporated them in the invention of the phonograph in 1877 – the picture above
this article shows Edison with his phonograph. What’s interesting about the
phonograph is that Edison never conceived it as a possible form of entertainment;
he thought it would be used by businesses to dictate letters. He was wrong; it
brought music into people’s homes. This sounds similar to the invention of the
telephone, first dubbed a “speaking telegraph” and not seen as a social device. It
shows how difficult it is to predict in what ways new technologies can be used. To
see how new technologies can be used in a different conceptual domain requires
imagination. Edison did have an imaginative brain though, when he used his
telephone-technology into the conceptual domain of recording sound.