 Thomas Edison, one of the inventors of our time was born in Ohio/united States of America. When he was seven, he went to Michigan with his family and started his education there. However, when his school teacher told that he was ‘’too silly’’ for having an education, he had to leave school. When
he was twelve, because he had to earn his living,
he sold newpapers on the trains working in Port-Huron-Detroit line.
Within a short time, he placed a printing machine which
operated manually in one of the carriages
(wagons) and started to sell the newspapers that were published by
himself. Meanwhile, he
was also working on his experiments.
Following an experiment that he had done inside the carriage, a
fire broke out and the chief
administrator of the train hit him hardly on the ear, so he became
deaf. When
he was sixteen, he invented the apparatus
for telegraph which enabled the people on both sides of
a single wire to speak with
each other. He sold this invention for 40.000 dollars to an American
company and with the money he earned, he established a laboratory
in Boston for his experiments in physics, chemistry and
electricity. During these
days, he invented a machine that recorded the
values in the stock exchange
automatically, with which he could earn
around six hundred dollars
per year. In
1883, he discovered that a wire heated in the molecular space could
spread out electrons. However, it was J.F Fleming who had found
the diode lamp after examining this influence, named as the Edison
Effect. Edison,
also invented the ‘’Micro telephone’’ and
made Bell’s telephone much more practical.
In 1877 he found the electrical writing machine called
‘’Motograf’’, in 1878 the ‘’Phonograph’’. In this very
same year, he found the ‘’Telephonograph’’ and
‘’Aerograph’’. He
is also the inventer of the camera which shoots 46 pictures per second
and the cinema. Last of all, he made the electric battery that was
named after him. He
also established many companies, then merged them and bought the
competing companies and as a result he founded the General Electric
Company. As
a result of the experiments that he had started
at a considerably young age and continued till the end of his
life, he received around one thousand four hundred certificates of
patent from the government. He
is one of those rare individuals, may be the most important , who
could reach the
‘’Human’’,
who at the stairs leading to humanity could change the nights into
days and became the source of light for the
communities and the
countries. In
this respect, we are accepting him as one of the enlighteners. Ahmet F. Yuksel Bibliography:
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