What is genius? According to Thomas Edison, it’s 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. By this definition, Edison certainly qualified.
From childhood to the end of his long life, Edison was always working on some project. Many of them were inspirations that changed the world we live in. This issue explores these great inventions and the man who pioneered them.
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How Edison Invented the Light Bulb
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Genius, Inventor, Businessman
What is genius? According to Thomas Edison, it is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent per ...
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1847–1931: The Edison Era
As a boy in Milan, Ohio, Edison wondered at the sight of covered wagons carrying pioneers ...
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Early Years
Named Thomas after a great uncle and Alva after a family friend, Thomas Alva Edison was ca ...
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Edison’s First Inventions
Telegraphy didn’t come easy to Tom (as Edison began to call himself at the age of 15 ...
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Later Inventions
There was something restless in the spirit of Thomas Edison. In 1882, at the age of 35, he ...
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Family and Friends
For much of his life, Edison was the most famous and most respected man in America.
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