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ThomasAlva Edison

INTERDISCIPLINEARY PROJECT

The King

of

Inventions

Group members: Dina Bijedi, Haris auevi and Harun Ceri


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Thomas Edison

Interdisciplinary Project

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Area of interaction: Human ingenuity

Changed way of living forever!

Considered as one of thegreatest inventors the world ha

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ever seen!

Despite his numerous brilliantinventions and innovations,

several of his ideas were absolute

duds.

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THINKER

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Was Thomas Edison a

genius?

This is what he had to say aboutit..

"Genius is 1% inspiration and

99% perspiration. A 'genius' is

often simply a talented person

who has done all of his or her

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THIS WAS PROBABLY HIS FIRST

EXPERIMENT!

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born on February 11, 1847 inMilan, Ohio

seventh and last child ofSamuel and Nancy Edison

when Edison was seven hisfamily moved to Port Huron,Michigan

with 12 he started to loose

hearing

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With 12 years he set up a chemical laboratory in a

corner of baggage car!

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with14 he set up his own printing press

this were the first newspaper ever published in arailroad train

Edison attended public school for a total of 12 weeks

The boy is backward. All he does isasks questions.

Nonsense I will teach him

myself!

"My mother was

the making of me.She was so true,

so sure of me, and

I felt I hadsomeone to live

for, someone I

must not

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In 1866, at age 19, Edison moved to Louisville, Kentucky,

working for The Associated Press

The night shift allowed him to spend most of his time

reading and experimenting

In 1868, Edison returned home to find his mother was

falling into mental illness and his father was out of work

He ventured to Boston, landing a job for the Western UnionCompany6

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In 1869, Edisonmoved to New

York City anddeveloped his firstinvention, animproved stockticker

The Gold andStock TelegraphCompany was soimpressed, theypaid him $40,000

for the rights7

Edison was only 22years old

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In 1870, Thomas Edison set up his first small laboratory andmanufacturing facility in Newark, New Jersey, andemployed several machinists.7

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In 1871 Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell

During their 13-year marriage,

they had three children, Marion,Thomas and William8

Mary died of a suspected brain tumor at the age of 29 in 1884.

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Edison, half-deaf, taught Mina Morsecode. One day, Edison asked .-- --- ..-.-.. -.. -.-- --- ..- -- .- .-. .-. -.-- -- . andMina replied -.-- . ...9

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Ed son Illum nat ng Company

Industrialist and business manager

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By the end of the 1920s Thomas Edison was in his 80s and he slowed down

somewhat, but not before he applied for the last of his 1,093 U.S. patents, for

an apparatus for holding objects during the electroplating process.11

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Died of complications of diabetes on October 18,1931 in New Yersey

By the time he died he was one of the mostwell-known and respected Americans in theworld


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INVENTIONS

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Creating experiments was Thomas Edisonspassion

Thomas Edison created 1,093 inventions He was still inventing when he died

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Commercialfluoroscope

Electricitydistribution

system

Electricalvote

recorder

KinetoscopeStock

tickerDurable

light bulb

Carbon

button

transmitter

Perfectedtelephone

KinetographWorked on

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LIGHT BULB

Improv

ed thepre -

existing light

bulb

It was the firstcommercially

viable one

In 1879Edison

had abulbthat

lasted

for twodays

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Three factors in combination are generallyrecognized as contributing to Edisons success:

1) A durable incandescent material

2) Elimination of air from the bulb-a better

vacuum

3) A filament material of high resistance11

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LIMITATIONSEdisons light bulb did not last long, so inventor Lewis Latimer improved the

light bulb by developing carbon filaments that lasted longer!!!It cuts down on candles manufactured, big maintenance cost, wastedenergy when there is heat going off the bulb, it is very fragile-the light bulbcan break very easily in a vibrational environment!!!

APPLICATIONS

The light bulb changed the world's industry -- businessesnow could dramatically improve production availableby running around the clock. The world changed interms of leisure, too, as people who for centuries hadretired with the sunset now ventured out far more oftenat night for social reasons.

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PHONOGRAPH The first great invention developed by

Edison in Menlo Park was the tin foilphonograph

Movement of the paper tape through themachine produced a noise resemblingspoken words when played at a highspeed12

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Experimenting with a stylus (hard-pointed instrument like a large needle) on atinfoil cylinder, Edison spoke into the machine

Do you know the first words

ever recorded?

"Mary had a little lamb."

LIMITATIONS APPLICATIONSPrior to Edison, only the

written word was availablefor recording history; with his

inventions of the phonographand motion pictures, sights

and sounds could berecorded and preserved for

the ages.

The phonograph doll wasinvented by Thomas Alva

Edison in the late nineteenthcentury, following his

invention of the phonograph.Dolls had critical techniquewas borne of phonograph

recordings.12

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The Kinetoscope was a motion picture projectorinvented in 1888

On August 24, 1891, Edison filed the patent forthe camera (kinetograph)peep-hole viewer(kinetoscope) set-up, indicating the film widthto be 35mm and the possibility of using acylinder for future upgrades.

Thomas Edison

Interdisciplinary ProjectLIMITATIONS

APPLICATIONS

Since the film rolls were not long enough and sturdy enough, Edison and hiscrew were not able to build a device based on Mareys technique. Afterinvented, Edison developed his usage of kinetoscope.

Motion pictures forever changed

how mankind was entertained. Nolonger many people need to travellong distances to see a show orhear a concert; they could go to alocal movie hall!

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THE FAILED INVENTIONS

The greatest failure of Thomas Edison's careerwas his inability to create a practical way to mineiron ore.

One concept that never took off was Edison'sinterest in using cement to build things.13

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DO NOT LET FAILURES TODISAPPOINT YOU, THINK OF

SOMETHING NEW AND HOPEYOU WILL MAKE SUCCESS.14

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THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION!!!


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