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Thomas Edison Bron
Thomas Edison. The king of inventor. -
Thomas' Father
Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. He was the seventh and last child. -
Mary Stilwell
Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell. They had 3 children.
Marion Estelle Edison , Thomas Alva Edison, Jr. and William Leslie Edison - Inventor, graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, 1900.
Mary Edison died at age 29 on August 9, 1884 -
Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb
Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb
It use to illuminate
Benefit is cheap and convenient. The invention of light bulb lead the society has entered a new era. -
first successful light bulb
Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb model, used in public demonstration at Menlo Park, December 1879
"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." -
Edison married the 20-year-old Mina Miller
She was the daughter of the inventor Lewis Miller. They also had three children together:
Madeleine Edison , Charles Edison who Governor of New Jersey also took over his father's company and experimental laboratories upon his father's death. Theodore Miller Edison credited with more than 80 patents. -
Telegraph improvements
New York City
Use to help people connect each other easily.
Drawbacks the signal problem -
Motion pictures
NYC
Use to take pictures with motion and won't make the picture blury.
Drawbacks:
The camera or "Kinetograph" is too big. Hard to carry. -
Fluoroscopy
He later died of injuries related to the exposure.
New York City
Benefit is helped the medical improvement.
Drawback is the radiation.
