10 facts about Thomas A. Edison

When you look around you, many objects that were created or made better by Thomas Edison. In the 84 years of his life, Edison patented 1,093 inventions work, including the incandescent light bulb, phonograph, electric systems, motion picture camera, telegraph, telephone, X-ray and other - other.

Most people would think when the incandescent light bulb Edison offensive name. But did you know that in fact he did not create? Do you know about his ideas for using cement to build houses, furniture, refrigerators and even a piano? Or even his role in the execution of wild elephants with electric shock?

To commemorate the anniversary of her birthday (11 February 1847), Neatorama share 10 amazing facts about Thomas Edison:

1. Calculating teacher Edison "bean"

Edison is a subsidiary of curiosity is high. But he was a good student because his mind is not daydreaming. The youngest of 7 siblings, considered "pinhead" by his school teacher. When her mother knew, he was very angry and pulled him to quit school. At that time, the new Edison school for 3 months. After that, Edison's own mother who taught him at home. He recounts, "My mother was the one who membentukku. He was so loyal, have confidence in myself, and I felt I had someone to fight for in life, one that can not be kukecewakan. "

2. Edison Building Lab Firstly At Age 10 Years

At Edison moved nine years old, his mother gave scientific books to the elementary school level. The book is about how to do chemistry experiments at home. Edison hooked: he did some experiments from the book and spend the money to buy materials - chemicals.

At 10 years old, Edison built his first lab in the basement of his house. Usually his father would "bribe" with little money to Edison left the basement and go read a book. Edison of course complied, but he also used the money "feed" his father to buy materials - chemicals for experiments. And to ensure that no gentleman who took valuable chemicals, he gave the label reads "poison" on all bottles.

3. Can not Hear Edison and He Loved

At 12 years old, he began to lose his hearing. Some say that there is a train conductor who hit his ears when he lit the fire at the time was experimenting in the carriage of goods. According to Edison, he was injured when the conductor is pulled into a moving train by pulling his ears.

There are also those who say it is the cause of hearing loss because he got fever in childhood. But it is also very possible that he was deaf because of genetic factors, father and one brother Edison also deaf.

But one thing is for sure; Edison liked keadaanya (technically he is not totally deaf, but hard to hear). He said that the situation was made more able to concentrate on his experiments.

And one more thing: He does have a lab in a railway carriage which eventually burned! Edison who was aged 12 years and then worked with selling newspapers and candy. He made the lab for chemical experiments and printing in the trunk of the car, where he published the Grand Trunk Herald, the first newspaper published in the car.

4. Edison Rescuing A Boy

At age 14, he had salvaged Jimmie MacKenzie, aged 3 years of railroad car that was speeding fast. Jimmie's father, station agent JU MacKenzie was so grateful that she taught him how to use the telegraph machine.

After that he became a telegraph operator for Western Union. He asked to work the night shift so he still has time to do the experiment. One day he accidentally spilled sulfuric acid while performing experiments with battery. The acid liquid penetrates the wood floor and got a table downstairs superiors. The next day, he was fired.

5. First Patent Edison Are A Failure

In 1869, Edison at the age of 22, his first patent for a machine wire voice recorder (telegraphic vote-recording machine) to the legislature. Each member of the legislature will move a button on a machine that Edison will then record the plan - laws they choose.

At the time of his business associates bring those findings to Washington DC, chairman of the committee were not impressed with the speed of the device is recording it says "when there are findings that we do not want on this earth, it is this discovery." The slow way of working tools that make legislators more can thwart the plan - laws or convince the other members to change her vote.

Since then he decided it would only create a discovery that could be sold.

6. Apply Edison Wife With Morse Code

At Christmas 1871, at the age of 24 he married his servants, Mary Stilwell (16 years) after 2 months of acquaintance. In February Edison would upset his wife's inability to create something. He later wrote in the diary "my beloved wife Mary Edison was not able to create anything worth!" Mary gave birth to 3 children, Edison gave the nickname "Dot" and "Dash" for the first child and both (possibly taken from Morse code).

Two years after Mary died, Edison married Mina Miller who was aged 20 years. The story of his encounter very interesting: after the death of Mary, he often went to Boston and stayed at a friend's house, Mr. and Mrs. Gilliards. Family Gilliards Edison tried to introduce him to some girl. But with the appearance of half-deaf, eyes bulging, breath odor and ketombean who always brought her face to the girl - the girl so he could hear her voice clearly, the whole girl running scared!

A family day Gilliards introduced to Mina Miller Edison. He immediately fell in love:

Edison invented the "heaven-it" in Fort Myers, then finally decided that he must do three things: build a winter home in Florida, married to Mina, and brought it to his paradise.

Returning to New York, Edison is usually workaholic obsessed with his new love. Later he wrote in his diary: "I see someone who looks like Mina. Then remember Mina and almost hit by a car. If Mina kept bothering me, I had to take the casualty. "(Source: Anatomy of Some Marriages Celebrated by D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People's Almanac)

Edison taught Mina Morse code so they can communicate confidentially with code knocking on their hands. One day he asked .- - .- .. ..- - .. -.- - ..- - .- .-. .-. -.- -. and Mina answered -.-. ...

7. Edison Have Tattoos mysterious arms

According to the 1911 policy of life insurance companies in New York, Edison had five dots tattooed on his right arm. No one knows what the purpose of these tattoos.

Interestingly enough, Edison was awarded for the discovery of the first tattoo machine. In 1876, he patented a stencil-Pens, a tool which was later modified by Samuel O 'Reilly to be the first tattoo machine.

8. The invention of Edison The Killing

After Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays in 1895, Edison directed his employees, a man named Clarence Dally to develop a fluoroscope. The tool is a success that eventually used in hospitals today.

When the X-ray is not known to be dangerous and Clarence has a habit of doing tests on his hands. In 1900, he had a wound that can not be cured, so that his hand had to be amputated. Clarence condition worsened after both hands amputated, and eventually he died of cancer.

9. The invention of Edison: Concrete Houses

In 1887, he started a project that later became a major failure. He proposed an idea to filter out low-quality iron metal which just laughed at as "stupidity Edison." Edison stubborn then invest his own money to build a factory and village to do this, but a few years later he realized that mine the ore iron can be done with a much smaller cost.

So, with all the heavy equipment left over from his failure, Edison decided to go into business for cement. He finds that he can form cement into various shapes and believes that he can build a house by pouring cement into a gigantic form.

Not only the house, but "everything from bathtubs, windows, stairs, framed painting to the supporting pillars can be made with cement."

10. electric shocks Elephant

At the end of 1880, Edison engage in "War of the electric current" with George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla. Edison promote the use of Direct Current (DC) for the distribution of electricity, where Westinghouse and Tesla using alternating current (AC).

In 1903, a circus elephant named Topsy rampage and killed three people, including his coach. Elephant is regarded as a threat and the owner wants the elephant was killed. When animal advocates protested the hanging method, Edison advised to shock.