Thomas Edison Research Paper

Thomas Edison’s use of electricity affected people’s everyday lives. Today all people use electricity. Light bulbs, electronics, and appliances all use electricity. Electricity is used in factories to make their products. Most entertainment uses electricity. Television, smartphones, video games, and computers use electricity. Electricity also makes communication faster. If someone in the US mailed a letter to a person in England, it would take a few days. If the person e-mailed or texted his message to the person in England, it would take seconds to get there. Thomas Edison’s inventions changed people’s lives through his ingenuity. Edison’s first invention was the Morse repeater. It made signals from a telegraph slower and easier to …show more content…
In 1877 Edison invented the carbon transmitter. It improved the audibility of the telephone by making the voice louder and clearer (Melosi). In 1877 Edison invented the phonograph. The phonograph recorded sound and then it repeated the sound. This invention brought him fame all over the world (Bio.com). Before Edison’s death, his company made the electric phonograph in 1928. It was not in stores for long because in 1929 the company stopped making phonographs (Hall). Edison’s invention of the phonograph made him popular before his invention of the light bulb. It took two years for Edison to invent the light bulb, and it took him hundreds of tries to successfully make it (Thomas Edison Home Page). On October 19, 1879, Thomas Edison made a bulb that burned for forty hours (Hall). In 1880, Edison received a patent for the light bulb (Bio.com). For the next few years after he invented the light bulb, Edison focused completely on electric power (Hall.) If Edison had not been an inventor, the light bulb would have been invented much later. …show more content…
His parents were Samuel and Nancy Edison, and he was the last of seven children. When he was little, he had trouble learning in school. When Thomas was seven, his mother taught him at home because he made his teacher angry. When Thomas was eleven he had a big hunger for reading and learning (Thomas Edison Home Page). At age twelve Edison’s parents allowed him to sell newspapers along the Grand Truck Railroad Line and set up a lab in a boxcar (Bio.com). When he was in his lab, something caught on fire. The conductor was so angry that he hit him in the face. When Thomas was fourteen he became deaf in his left ear and eighty percent deaf in his right ear. The conductor hitting him was partly responsible for his deafness (Thomas Edison Home Page). While he was working for the railroad, Edison saved a three year old child from being run over by a train. In return, the child’s father taught Edison how to operate a telegraph. (Bio.com). When Edison was fifteen, he became a telegraph operator, and when he was sixteen he tried to improve the telegraph (Thomas Edison Home Page). Edison worked for The Associated Press when he was nineteen. At that time The Associated Press was a telegraph company. Edison eventually could not work for the Associated Press because telegraphs started to use sounds when sending and receiving messages. Since Edison could not hear well, job searching became harder for him. Edison moved to

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