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Edison was born
Born in Milan Ohio, Thomas Edison was the youngest of seven and bon from Samuel Edison Jr. and Nancy Edison. He was one of the four out of seven that lived in their adulthood. Thomas's father was a exiled political activist from Canada and his mother was a school teacher. (History.com) -
James K. Polk
James Polk served as the 11th U.S. president from 1845 to 1849. During his tenure, America’s territory grew by more than one-third and extended across the continent for the first time. Before his presidency, Polk served in the Tennessee legislature and the U.S. Congress; in 1839 he became governor of Tennessee. (History.com) -
Rails Roads at the time
The Pullman Sleeping Car was invented by George Pullman in 1857. Pullman's railroad coach or sleeper was designed for overnight passenger travel. Sleeping cars were being used on American railroads since the 1830s. Early sleepers were not that comfortable and the Pullman Sleeper was very comfortable. (history.com) -
Leaving School
At age twelve Edison left school, he convinced his parents to let him sell new papers to passengers riding the Grand Trunk Herald. In the rail roads Edison used to make experiments. Once he was doing an experiment and a chemical fire started that destroyed a train cart. (biography.com) -
Saved
At the age of fourteen, Edison and a friend were hanging out by the railroad tracks in Port Huron, Michigan when they spotted a young boy in danger of being hit by a train. The future inventor dashed in and grabbed the child, saving his life. (Famous Men of Science) -
Gas Lamp
Oil lamps were not too effective in lightning of larger areas like streets and houses. Many years before Thomas Edison lit his house with the first gas lamp there were tries to make streets safer and more comfortable at night by using any kind of artificial light. The gas lamp was made to make things easier at night and safer at night which helped in the lighting process in the future. (Famous men of Science) -
Telephone
Thomas wasn't the real inventor of the telephone but he made very important improvements. In Bell’s telephone, it was only the vibrations made by the human voice that were turned into electric currents and could be heard on the other line. Because of the sounds were very faint, and even fainter over long distances. Edison chose something different; on his machine, the voice made a valve open or close, and this made a better current than the one before. (History.com) -
Telegraph
The telegraph was also one of Thomas Edison's most famous inventions because it helped the world in so many ways. Worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. The telegraph brought a whole new way of communicating. People could communicate form far distances, to men at that time was unheard of. The telegraph started communication for the future. (Famous Men of Science) -
Phonograph
Before there were CD players and tape decks, there was the phonograph. August 12, 1877 is the date popularly given for Thomas Edison's completion of the model for the first phonograph. The Phonograph could record sounds and play them. This is a very important invention to future music albums and music boxes. (Famous men of science) -
Light Bulb
One of the greatest inventions Edison invented was the light bulb. The first light bulb he invented successfully lasted 13 hours. He wasn't the first to come up the idea of the light bulb. It was 50 years of different ideas into the making of the light bulb. There are five lighting systems that Edison invention lead to and he improved upon are the parallel circuit, A durable light bulb, An improved dynamo, The underground conductor network. (The History of the Light Bulb) -
Art Research
Thomas Edison make the TESU. The Tomas Edison State University. The Bachelor of Arts degree prepares adults for career change, professional advancement or graduate education, while providing personal enrichment. Thomas helped a lot of people with his research that turned into a great collage. -
Birth of Basketball
James Naismith was asked to take a physical education class at the Young Men’s Christian Association school in Springfield, Massachusetts. Since it was winter, Naismith was asked to invent an indoor game within two weeks to keep the young boys occupied. A game he used to play was called a duck on a rock. It was play with a large rock placed on a larger stone would be knocked off by throwing smaller rocks at it. He also remembered rugby players in the gym tossing a ball into the box.(History.com) -
The Wright Brothers
In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight. Two years later another many injuries and fails the Wright Brothers built and flew the first fully practical airplane. (history.com) -
World War I
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Threats orders followed the incident, leading to the outbreak of World War I, which pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the so-called Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan, more than 9 million soldiers had been killed and 21 million more wounded. (Britannica) -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment. (History.com) -
Edison's Death
On October, 1931 Thomas Edison dies in West Orange, New Jersey, at the age of 84. HE lived a very important life and all of his inventions come back to us because some of the things we have now, we might not have had them without Thomas Edison. (Biography.com)
