The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World

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Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in the town of Milan, Ohio. 1 His parents, Sam and Nancy Edison, were of Canadian origin and had six children prior to Thomas, only three of whom survived. Edison’s family moved to Port Huron, Michigan in 1854. Throughout his childhood, Thomas Edison was full of curiosity about how things worked and always asked a lot of questions. He didn’t do very well in a traditional school setting, and often got punished for annoying the teacher with too many questions. As a result, after the age of twelve, he was home-schooled by his mother. His interest in scienc

Edison responded by undertaking production of phenol at his Silver Lake facility using processes developed by his chemists. [108] He built two plants with a capacity of six tons of phenol per day. Production began the first week of September, one month after hostilities began in Europe. He built two plants to produce raw material benzene at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Bessemer, Alabama, replacing supplies previously from Germany. Edison also manufactured aniline dyes, which previously had been supplied by the German dye trust. Other wartime products include xylene, p-phenylenediamine, shellac, and pyrax. Wartime shortages made these ventures profitable. In 1915, his production capacity was fully committed by midyear. On October 8, 1883, the US patent office ruled that Edison's patent was based on the work of William E. Sawyer and was, therefore, invalid. Litigation continued for nearly six years. In 1885, Latimer switched camps and started working with Edison. [64] On October 6, 1889, a judge ruled that Edison's electric light improvement claim for "a filament of carbon of high resistance" was valid. [65] To avoid a possible court battle with yet another competitor, Joseph Swan, who held an 1880 British patent on a similar incandescent electric lamp, [66] he and Swan formed a joint company called Ediswan to manufacture and market the invention in Britain.National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL)". Tps.cr.nps.gov. January 12, 1965. Archived from the original on August 8, 2011 . Retrieved December 31, 2013. Davis, L. J. (1998). Fleet Fire: Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of the Electric Revolution. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-47927-1. A brief history of Con Edison:"Electricity" ". Coned.com. January 1, 1998. Archived from the original on October 30, 2012 . Retrieved December 31, 2013. Thomas Edison's Vision". United States Navy. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013 . Retrieved December 18, 2013. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels seized the opportunity created by Edison's public comments to enlist Edison's support. He agreed to serve as the head of a new body of civilian experts – the Naval Consulting Board – to advise the Navy on science and technology.

In 2011, Edison was inducted into the Entrepreneur Walk of Fame and named a Great Floridian by the governor and cabinet of Florida. [155]Maury Klein (2008), The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America, Bloomsbury Publishing US, p. 257 McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–" . Retrieved May 28, 2023. Gabriela: "Edison made your work interesting. He made me feel that I was making something with him. I wasn't just a workman. Then in those days, we all hoped to get rich with him."