Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world.
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- Born in
- Milan
- Educated at
- Cooper Union
- Awards
- 🏆 Congressional Gold Medal🏆 Benjamin Franklin Medal
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Trending topics shown first"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it."
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
"Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!"
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1847
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Birth1931
Died
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