2. Edison’s career started at the age of 15 when he started selling
newspapers at the train station. There he became an engineer
and started his fantasy of electricity.
3. In 1869, Edison moved to New York City and developed his
first invention by the age of 22. An improved stock ticker, the
Universal Stock Printer. The Stock Telegraph Company was so
impressed they paid $40,000 for the rights.
4. In 1870 Thomas Edison moved to Newark, New Jersey
and bought a laboratory.
There he had met a lady named Mary Stilwell who he
married in 1871. She was 16 yrs old and he was 23.
During there marriage, they had three children.
Marion, Thomas, and William. Who followed in his
fathers footsteps by also becoming an inventor. After
the 13 year period of there marriage Mary had died of a
suspected brain tumor at the age of 29 in 1884
5. Phonograph
Operations
expanded, Edison
was now a success.
His newest invention
was the Phonograph
invented in 1877. The
phonograph was an
electronic way of
listening to
sound(music)
whenever you
wanted.
6. Electrical LightBulb
Everyone thinks
Thomas Edison
invented the Light
bulb, its true but he
only just improved
on it. In 1878, by
using lower current
electricity, a small
carbonized filament,
and an improved
vacuum inside the
globe came a extra
long lasting light
bulb.
7. The invention of the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the
Kinetoscope (a peep-hole motion picture viewer) all started in 1888 with
the help of William Kennedy Laurie Dickson. The camera was mainly
used for important news cast or big stories.
8. Thomas Edison’s career ended with a successful total of 1,093 U.S.
patents. He died at the age of 84 with diabetes. Many communities and
corporations throughout the world dimmed their lights or briefly
turned off their electrical power to commemorate his passing. Edison
had lived his life to the fullest and was an outstanding man.
