Invention and its inventor

Thomas Edison is an inventor. Prepared by 10th grade student Anastasia Furdui

American inventor and entrepreneur who received 1,093 patents in the United States and about 3,000 in other countries of the world; creator of the phonograph; improvements to the telegraph, telephone, film equipment, developed by one of the first commercially successful versions of the incandescent lamp, which was a refinement of other options.

Thomas Edison is considered the inventor of the electric incandescent lamp, since it was he who presented a sample of the lamp with recommendations for its practical use. The base of household lamps, which has a thread, was invented by Thomas Edison.

In 1878, Edison visited William Valas in Ansonia after the meeting, Thomas began work towards improving the lamps. In April 1879, the inventor established the crucial importance of vacuum in the manufacture of lamps. And already on October 21, 1879, Edison completed work on an incandescent light bulb with a carbon filament, which became one of the largest inventions of the 19th century. Edison's greatest merit was not in developing the idea of ​​the incandescent lamp, but in creating a practicable, widespread electric lighting system with a strong filament, a high and stable vacuum, and the possibility of using many lamps at the same time.

On the eve of 1878, in a speech, Edison said: "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." In 1878, Edison, along with J. P. Morgan and other financiers, founded the Edison Electric Light Company in New York. Thomas Edison, the name of a great man that everyone needs to know After all, only thanks to him we learned what light is.