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Thomas Edison's Birth
Thomas Edison was born in Milan,Ohio and his parents are Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr and Nancy Matthews Elliott. He was the youngest out of seven kids. The father was an exiled political activist from Canada. The mother, an accomplished school teacher, was a major influence in Thomas’ early life. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincolns's directive freeing slaves in states rebelling against the US. It consists of two executive orders issued September 22, 1862 that declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863 and one issued January 1, 1863, named the specific states where it applied. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th amendment Congress passed and made in the Constitution that abolished slavery. It's important that orders were directed only to states that seceded from the Union. Slave states that remained with them weren't affected and slavery remained legal. In 1865 it freed slaves with this message: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the US, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
Abraham Lincoln' Death
President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington,DC by getting shot in the head by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Before traveling to a theater in DC, Lincoln was informed of a asassination but ignored it and went off anyway. One of the guards was guarding the door into a private balcony and left his post. JWB was able to get in and shoot Lincoln. He jump on the stage and broke a leg, while holding a knife in the air and said "Sic semper tyrannis!" ("Thus always to tyrants"), and escaped. -
Thomas Edison First Invention
In New York City Thomas Edison invented the improved version called the stock ticker called the Universal Stock Printer. It's function is to synchronize several stock ticker's transactions. A company called The Gold and Stock Telegraph Company was so impressed, and paid him $40,000 for the rights. Inspired by his sucess, he quit his job as a telegrapher and became a full-time-inventer. -
Transcontinental Railroad
The first settlers began to move westward across the United States.In 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, and tasked them with building a transcontinental railroad that would link the US from east to west. Over the next seven years, the two companies raced toward each other from Sacramento, California on the one side and Omaha, Nebraska struggled against great risks before they met at Promontory, Utah. -
Thomas Edison's First Marrige
This marraige is going to be his only one. His first wife was a 16 year old woman named Mary Stilwell who was an employee at one of his businesses. After 13 years of marraige, they had three children, Marion, Thomas and William, who also became inventors. Mary died of a suspected brain tumor at the age of 29 in 1884. -
Thomas Edison's First Official Lab
In 1876, he moved his expanding operations to Menlo Park, New Jersey, and built an independent industrial research facility incorporating machine shops and laboratories. Edison purchased two parcels of land measuring approximately 34 acres from the family of William Carman who was one of his employees at Newark, in late 1875. Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory was the world’s first such research and development facility. While Edison was working on perfecting the telephone, he started experimenting -
Phonograph
It's basiclly is a record player that plays music and messages. Edison was trying to improve the telegragh transmitter when he noticed that the movement of the tape throught the machine produced a noise resembling spoken words when played at high speeds. Experimenting with a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder, Edison spoke into it. The cylinder recorded his message: "Mary had a little lamb". At first people had difficultly believing in his discovery, but soon after they did believe. I spread rapidly. -
The Electrical Lamp/Light Bulb
The light bulb was invented earlier that year and Edison had to invent an electrical appliance to use the light bulb. Edison began working on electric lighting in September 1878, he made his lamps with platinum wire filaments because the metal had a high melting point Lamp Diagram 1879. However, in January 1879 he conducted basic research on the heating of platinum that showed air was absorbed into its pores as it was heating, thus weakening the metal and causing it to melt at lower temperature. -
The Brockton Operation
First model of a complete central power station which was built in Brockton, Ma. The "Brockton Breakthrough" finally proved that the Edison System was capable of proving the general public with community wide safe, stable, and efficient light and power. After the operation was finished it focus to be maintain and enhanced in New York City. -
Motion Picture Camera
Edison’s initial work in motion pictures (1888-89) actually resembled his phonograph, with pictures arranged on a cylinder. These first motion pictures were rather crude, and hard to focus. Working with trusted associate and mucker K. L. Dickson, and using George Eastman’s improved 35 mm celluloid film, which was cut into continuous strips and perforated along the edges, the film was moved by sprockets in a stop-and-go motion behind the shutter. -
Two way telegraph
The telegraph was the first from of communication that could be sent from a great distance and was a landmark in human history. In April 1896, Thomas Armat's Vitascope, manufactured by the Edison factory and marketed in Edison's name, was used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City. Later he exhibited motion pictures with voice soundtrack on cylinder recordings, mechanically synchronized with the film. -
World War I
Escalation of threats and mobilization orders followed the incident, leaded by mid-August to the war, in Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan (Allied). Al were joined after 1917 by the US. The four years of the Great War was had unknown levels of death and destruction, caused by modern weaponry such as machine guns, tanks and chemical weapons. When it ended, 9 million+ men dead and 21m hurt. 9/11/1918 -
Nineteenth Amendment
The 19th amendment was ratified on to the constitution that gave women the right to vote. When the U.S. was founded, its female citizens didn't share all of the same rights as men. It wasn't until 1848 movement for women’s rights launched in a national convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Following the convention, the demand became a centerpiece of the movement. Activists formed organizations raising public awareness and lobbied the government grant it after 70 years. -
Thomas Edison's Death
Thomas Edison died in West Orange, New Jersey at 84 years old because of diabities. By the time of his death he was one of the most well-known and respected Americans in the world. He had been at the forefront of America’s first technological revolution and set the stage for the modern electric world. Because of his obessesion of working he lacked sleep and neclected family.
