Thomas+Alva+Edison

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= Thomas E﻿dison!!! =



== "Opportunit ﻿ y is mis﻿s ﻿ ed by most ﻿  people because it is dressed in over﻿alls and looks like work." ==

Thomas Alva Edison was born to middle-class parents in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. He is the youngest of seven children. When he was seven, after spending 12 weeks in a one-room school house, his teacher lost his patience with Thomas's persistent questioning and seemingly self-centered behavior, and he didn't hold back his belief that Thomas's brains were scrambled. If he was alive today, doctors probably would have called him ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). When his mother heard about this, she promptly took him out of school and began to "home-teach" him, even though she believed his slightly unusual demeanor and physical appearance were signs of intelligence.  * * * * * In 1877, Edison came up with the phonograph. He was trying to create an answering type machine for the telephone as he had for the automatic telegraph, that could transcribe messages as they were received, so that they could transfer the human voice to then be delivered as telegraph messages. * * * * * In 1878, Edison discovered the electric light.  * * * * * In 1909, Edison created DC battery power. <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px; text-align: center;">* * * * * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px; text-align: center;">Edison has approximately 900 patents: 389 for electric light and power; 195 for the phonograph; 150 for the telegraph; 141 for storage batteries; and 34 for the telephone.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">"If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves...."

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">"Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work...."

<span style="color: #25dc18; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26px;">The Phonograph: a record player <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26px;">

<span style="color: #25dc18; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26px;">---The first great invention developed by Edison in Menlo was the tin foil phonograph. He began experimenting with the diaphragm of a telephone receiver by attaching a needle to it. He reasoned that the needle could prick paper tape to record a message. <span style="color: #25dc18; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;"> His experiments led him to try a stylus on a ﻿tin foil cylinder, <span style="color: #25dc18; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26px;">which, to his surprise, played back the short message he had recorded, "Mary had a little lamb." Thomas established the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company to sell the new machine.

<span style="color: #25dc18; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26px;">The phonograph brought about many new inventions, such as: letter writing and dictation, phonographic books for the blind, a family record (recording family members in their own voices), music boxes and toys, clocks that announce the time, and a connection so that telephone communications could be recorded.---

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">"The three things that are most essential to achievement are: common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness......"

<span style="color: #25dc18; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">DC Power Supplie﻿s:

<span style="color: #25dc18; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Since DC power had been ousted in the early 1900's, everyone thought DC power was dead, but in reality, DC power keeps things from dying! Batteries are a form of DC power. DC power, however, is not as practical as AC power, because it requires that you have a generating station within one mile of where the electricity was to be used, while AC power was able to preform long-distance power transmission by virtue of the fact that electricity sent at high voltages (and a low current) suffers﻿ very little loss in the wires.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">"Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

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