YESTERDAY's child's name is Thomas Alva Edison.
Edison's inventions contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications.
His mother also had a great hand in Edison's success.
Regardless of this, there was no disappointment in Edison's response.
After Dally's death, Edison finally abandoned his research into X-rays.
Edison's mother encouraged his curious son to learn things for himself.
Edison's feud with Nikola Tesla is almost as famous as Edison himself.
Edison's mother died in 1871,
and that same year he married 16-year-old Mary Stillwell.
Edison's health continued to decline
and he lapsed into a coma on 14th October 1931.
It all changed, however, when Thomas Edison visited Muybridge's studio sometime in the mid-1880s.
Edison's invention cost around $ 5000 but
he was ready to sell it for $ 3,000.
In 1882, Thomas Edison's famous Pearl Street plant began generating heat
and electricity for lower Manhattan.
The invention of
the first usable lightbulb is really emblematic of Edison's signature as an inventor.
Many years after Edison's mother died,
he became one of the greatest inventors of the century.
One of Edison's final projects in his life was certain
electric trains running in New Jersey.
Thomas Edison's serious incandescent light bulb research began in 1878,
filing his first patent later that year.
Many years after Edison's mother died,
he had become one of the greatest inventors of the century.
These workers were inventors, too, and did a lot of work on Edison's ideas to help.
Many years after Edison's mother had died,
he became one of the greatest inventors of the century.
I never did a day's work in my life.
it was all fun.” ― Thomas A. Edison.
He presented himself at Edison's laboratory, and announced
he had come to go into business with the inventor.
In his early years, Thomas Edison's health was poor,
and this may have affected his studies at school.
However, Edison's story for this changed over the years,
so it isn't entirely clear how accurate that is.
The electric light wasn't Thomas Edison's first invention,
nor was he the first to create an alternative to gaslight.
And many other English speaking countries by“hello”,
which was Thomas Edison's favorite thing to say when answering the phone.
This quote is particularly poignant given Tesla's not so flattering remarks about Edison which you can read below.
The boy's father J. U Mackenzie was so grateful that he taught Edison how to use a telegraph.