In the early s, Edison planned and supervised the construction of the first commercial, central electric power station in New York City. In , Edison began construction of a new laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. Before he died in , Edison patented 1, of his inventions.
The wonders of his mind include the microphone, telephone receiver, universal stock ticker, phonograph, kinetoscope used to view moving pictures , storage battery, electric pen, and mimeograph. Edison improved many other existing devices as well. From a discovery made by one of his associates, he patented the Edison effect now called thermionic diode , which is the basis for all electron tubes. Edison will forever be remembered for his contributions to the incandescent light bulb.
Even though he didn't dream up the first light bulb ever crafted, and technology continues to change every day, Edison's work with light bulbs was a spark of brilliance on the timeline of invention. At the very beginning of his experiments with the incandescent lamp in , he said:. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows. Note: The object pictured above is part of The Franklin Institute's protected collection of objects. All rights are reserved. Join Our Email List.
Learn more about our commitment to safety. The Franklin Institute is a C 3 nonprofit registered in the U. The Franklin Institute. Edison's Lightbulb. She understood me; she let me follow my bent. A look inside the bulb. Edison's unique pointed-top design. A close-up of the socket and inside of the bulb. Close-up view of the label. View of the bottom of the bulb. At the very beginning of his experiments with the incandescent lamp in , he said: "We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived.
Connect With Us. Edison's friend and associate, Walter S. Mallory, offers this account: This [the research] had been going on more than five months, seven days a week, when I was called down to the laboratory to see him [Edison]. I found him at a bench about three feet wide and twelve feet long, on which there were hundreds of little test cells that had been made up by his corps of chemists and experimenters.
I then learned that he had thus made over nine thousand experiments in trying to devise this new type of storage battery, but had not produced a single thing that promised to solve the question. In view of this immense amount of thought and labor, my sympathy got the better of my judgment, and I said: 'Isn't it a shame that with the tremendous amount of work you have done you haven't been able to get any results?
Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! I know several thousand things that won't work! The point is that Edison had to go through a great deal of trial-and-error to discover what would make the bulb work well. That required more persistence than flashes of insight, which is why Edison is associated with another quote: "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration " Spoken statement c.
Lewis Howard Latimer Shedding some light on Latimer I'm adding in another note on the development of the light bulb to clarify some confusion stirred up by Joe Biden's declaration in Kenosha on September 3, , " A black man invented the light bulb.
While he was working as a draftsman for Hiram Maxim, founder of the U. Electric Lighting Company, he along with Joseph Nichols, registered a patent for a light bulb with a carbon filament that burned better than than the bamboo one in Edison recognized the value of Latimer's expertise in both the area of electrical engineering and patents and hired him in as chief draftsman an patent expert in the legal department of Edison Electric Light Company.
Labels: , battery. No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. In total, Edison accumulated 1, U. Only a few inventors have earned even half as many.
Edison's inventions that are not mentioned above include the printing telegraph, the electric "stencil pen," a magnetic mining process, an electrical torpedo, a synthetic rubber, and improved alkaline batteries, cement mixers, and microphones. It must be said that Edison used other inventors' ideas much more freely than he shared his own.
For example, the wax cylinder phonograph was first patented by Chichester A. Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter , whose offer of a joint venture Edison rejected. The disc "gramophone" was first patented by Emile Berliner in Even the so-called "Edison Effect," the observed emission of electrons from a hot filament, was actually discovered by an Edison engineer named William J. Hammer in Regardless, nothing can gainsay the tremendous effect that Edison's career as a whole has had on our everyday lives.
By the volume, variety, and spectacularity of his inventions, Edison — more than any other person — made it seem as though no miracle was beyond the reach of modern American technology. As an inspiration to aspiring engineers and inventors, then and now, Edison is peerless. Indeed, above all others, as his Congressional Medal of Honor certificate declared: "He illuminated the path of progress by his inventions. Don't miss our next newsletter!
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