Inventors and Their Early Life

Thomas Edison resigned from his job as a telegraph operator because he preferred to work on his inventions. A close friend of his offered him a job fixing printing machines. When he was twenty-five he married a co worker named Mary Stilwell. She became sick often and Edison wasn’t sure he could handle it so the slept in separate rooms. They had three children together all boys who later became inventors themselves. In 1876 he opened a new factory in Menlo Park. At his factory he treated his employees like his own family. He wanted his employees to do their best and nothing less. If he made a mistake and got bad results on an invention he didn’t care because to bad results are equal to good result. If messed up at least he could learn what he did wrong to improve. Thomas Edison never gave up even when it seemed impossible. Edison helped Alexander Bell to improve the telephone by developing a transmitter that g improved telephone. The transmitter product made it so that you can hear voices clearly; he also made the volume on the phone higher.

Edison discovered electricity by experimenting with metals such as carbon. It tested his invention on October22, 1879 it took him nearly thirty hours to complete it. To make this invention he used carbon connected to wires hooked up to a lamp which eventually became electricity. He state to the science team that there were several ways to make the light come on and that the light could stay for hours. Thomas Edison founded his own company called “Edison Electric Light Company” in 1878.  He let everyone see is electric invention in Menlo Park on December 31, 1879. Also in 1985 George Westinghouse helped to create the AC (Air conditioning). Thomas passed away in his home on October 18th, 1931 his wife died sixteen years later. It is questionable whether Edison is buried behind the house he lived in with in New Jersey or at a cemetery.