Edison, Thomas Alva

Edison, Thomas Alva
  The "father" of the American energy industry, Thomas Edison was an American inventor who was born in 1847 and died in 1931. He patented a total of 1,093 inventions - more than any other person in American history. Among the most important were the incandescent electric light bulb (1879), the phonograph (1877) and the movie projector (1893).
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  • Edison,Thomas Alva — Edison, Thomas Alva. 1847 1931. American inventor who patented more than a thousand inventions, among them the microphone (1877), the phonograph (1878), and an incandescent lamp (1879). In New York City he installed the world s first central… …   Universalium

  • Edison, Thomas Alva — born Feb. 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio, U.S. died Oct. 18, 1931, West Orange, N.J. U.S. inventor. He had very little formal schooling. He set up a laboratory in his father s basement at age 10; at 12 he was earning money selling newspapers and candy on… …   Universalium

  • Edison, Thomas Alva — ► (1847 1931) Físico e inventor estadounidense. Inventó aparatos transmisores, el fonógrafo, etc., que le hicieron famoso. Consiguió las primeras lámparas de incandescencia y los ferrocarriles eléctricos. En 1884 descubrió el efecto de la emisión …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Edison , Thomas Alva — (1847–1931) American physicist and inventor Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and was taught at home by his mother – he had been expelled from school as ‘retarded’, perhaps because of his deafness. From the age of seven he lived in Port Huron,… …   Scientists

  • EDISON, THOMAS ALVA —    a celebrated American inventor, born at Milan, Ohio; started life as a newsboy; early displayed his genius and enterprise by producing the first newspaper printed in a railway train; turning his attention to telegraphy, he revolutionised the… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Thomas Alva Edison — «Edison» redirige aquí. Para otras acepciones, véase Edison (desambiguación). Thomas Alva Edison El genio es un uno por ciento de inspiración y un noventa y nueve por ciento de transpiración. Thomas Alva Edison, Harper s Monthly (1932) …   Wikipedia Español

  • Thomas Alva Edison — Thomas Edison Pour les articles homonymes, voir Edison (homonymie). Thomas Edison …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Thomas Alva Edison — (1915) Thomas Alva Edison (* 11. Februar 1847 in Milan, Ohio; † 18. Oktober …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Thomas Alva Edison jr. — Thomas Alva Edison jr. um 1900 Thomas Alva Edison jr. (* 10. Januar 1876 in Menlo Park, New Jersey; † 25. August 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts) war ein amerikanischer Erfinder und eine tragische Gestalt der amerikanischen Populärkultur …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Thomas Alva Edison —   Die Bedeutung eines Erfinders wird daran gemessen, wie weit seine Schöpfungen nachwirken. Obwohl viele seiner über 1 000 Patente technisch überholt sind, ist Thomas Alva Edison dennoch einer der größten Erfinder aller Zeiten. Auf ihn gehen… …   Universal-Lexikon

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