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    Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 in Ohio. He had hearing problems from a young age and was self-taught by his mother. As a young man, he worked as a telegraph operator and started his own newspaper. Over his career, Edison obtained 1,093 patents and founded 14 companies. Some of his most famous inventions include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting electric light bulb. He also developed early electric power systems and helped bring electricity into homes and businesses in the 1890s. Edison had a rivalry with George Westinghouse over direct current versus alternating current for power transmission.

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    Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 in Ohio. He had hearing problems from a young age and was self-taught by his mother. As a young man, he worked as a telegraph operator and started his own newspaper. Over his career, Edison obtained 1,093 patents and founded 14 companies. Some of his most famous inventions include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting electric light bulb. He also developed early electric power systems and helped bring electricity into homes and businesses in the 1890s. Edison had a rivalry with George Westinghouse over direct current versus alternating current for power transmission.

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    Thomas Alva Edison

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    Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 in Ohio. He had hearing problems from a young age and was self-taught by his mother. As a young man, he worked as a telegraph operator and started his own newspaper. Over his career, Edison obtained 1,093 patents and founded 14 companies. Some of his most famous inventions include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting electric light bulb. He also developed early electric power systems and helped bring electricity into homes and businesses in the 1890s. Edison had a rivalry with George Westinghouse over direct current versus alternating current for power transmission.

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    THOMAS ALVA

    EDISON
    LENKA DEVEROVÁ
    LIFE

    • born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio


    • family line was Dutch by way of New Jersey,
    the surname had originally been Edeson
    • hearing problems since young age
    • taught by his mother
    • selling candy and newspapers, worked as a
    telegraph operator
    • printed the Grant Talk Herald newspapers
    • had 14 companies
    • workaholic
    INVENTIONS (1,093 PATENTS)

    Electric vote recorder - 1869 Telegraphic system - 1874


    Phonograph - 1877 Carbon telephone - 1890
    Fuel cell technology
    Kinetographic camera - 1891

    Alkaline battery
    LIGHT - 1879

    • a long-lasting electric light bulb


    • it could burn for several hours
    • filament - when heated, the thread
    would glow and give off light
    • invented the electric power system to
    bring electricity into homes and
    businesses by the 1890s
    WAR OF CURRENTS

    • direct current (Edison) x alternating


    • George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla
    • direct – efective, safer
    • talked about electric chair and animals
    • 1893 - World’s Columbian Exposition
    DEATH

    • active until the end


    • joined the Civitan Club
    • fad diet
    • last visit of hometown
    • died of complications of diabetes on 18th October 1931, in West Orange, New Jersey
    SOURCES

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse
    • https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
    • https://www.businessinsider.com.au/thomas-edisons-inventions-2014-2#ore-separator-edison-designe
    d-a-device-that-separated-magnetic-and-non-magnetic-materials-he-later-developed-a-more-important
    -milling-technique-which-he-unfortunately-had-to-abandon-because-of-the-expenses-12
    • https://www.pkphysicalscience.com/article/425/5/edisons-electric-systemlogin?username=thealberta&
    password=library

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