Summarized Biography Of American Scientist

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 to a middle-class family.

Thomas Edison was one of the many inventors responsible for shaping our Modern World.

In 1876, Thomas Alva Edison, after being beaten by Bell to paten the telegraph, invented the Light Bulb. This marked Thomas Edison’s place on technological history forever.

In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison set-up the world’s first research and development center in West Orange, New Jersey.

In 1890, Thomas Alva Edison invented the Vita scope, which lead to the first ever silent, motion pictures.

In 1892, Thomas Alva Edison’s company Edison’s General Electric Co. merged with another firm to become the General Electric Corporation. Edison was the major stockholder of the corporation.

Thomas Alva Edison was known world-wide as the Wizard of Menlo Park, the Father of the Electrical Age,” and the Greatest Inventor Who Ever Lived.”

At 83 years old, Thomas Alva Edison finished with 1,093 patents.

Thomas Alva Edison died on October 18^th, 1931, at the age of 84. He woke up from his coma, right before passing, and told his wife Mina “It is very beautiful over there…”

On the evening he was laid to rest, many corporations, communities, and individuals dimmed their lights in honor of Thomas Alva Edison.