Name: Thomas Alva Edison
Birthday: February 11, 1847
Death: October 18 ,1931
Country:US( United States)
Field: electrical
Award: Franklin medal
Detail:
The wizard of Menlo park-nicknamed1 Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847. Excelled as both scientist and inventor. Edison patented a whopping total of 1093 invention in his lifetime. Most of the invention that came from Edison are batteries, phonographs ,cement, mining ,telegraph ,lights and powers.
Work:
He also improved the telephone made by Graham Bell and invented the kinetoscope that was used for viewing moving film. He was seen working almost more than 20 hours a day. Edison masterminded the digital voting system with his electrographic vote recorder for the legislative of the parliament. He also proposed Idea on preserving fruit by keeping it in vacuum. Edison pioneered the idea for storage batteries that was later used by Henry Ford in his automobile. " genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" is one of the famous quote by this genius. He died in the year 1931.
Book: the story of Thomas Alva Edison(scholastic biography)
Invention: incandescent light bulb, film, movie camera,1 electric pen, vitascope, carbon microphone, vacuum diode, radiometer,kinetoscope etc
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