21 Famous Inspirational and Motivational Quotes -"Thomas Edison"

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison, or Thomas Alva Edison, was a world-record-holding American inventor who was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, and passed away on October 18, 1931, in West Orange, New Jersey. Additionally, he founded the first industrial research laboratory in history.

In the early years of the telegraph industry, in 1863, when low-voltage batteries were essentially the only source of energy, he started his career. The phonograph, the carbon-button transmitter for the telephone speaker and microphone, the incandescent lamp, a ground-breaking generator of unparalleled efficiency, the first commercial electric light and power system, an experimental electric railroad, and key components of motion-picture equipment, among a host of other inventions, all came from his laboratories and workshops. He operated out of Newark, New Jersey, between 1870 and 1875, participating in numerous partnerships and intricate business dealings in the Western Union Telegraph Company-dominated, fiercely competitive, and complex telegraph industry.

Menlo Park:

Although Edison was a skilled negotiator, he was a bad money manager who frequently spent and gave away money more quickly than he gained it. He married Mary Stilwell, a 16-year-old who was equally careless with household duties as he was with business, in 1871, and by the end of 1875, their financial situation had deteriorated.

At Menlo Park, Edison lived his best years. He discovered that the electrical resistance and conductivity of carbon, changed depending on the pressure it was under while doing tests on an undersea line for the automatic telegraph. The pressure relay, which Edison and others had investigated but which Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent in 1876, was a device that would amplify and increase the audibility of the telephone. The carbon-button transmitter, which was utilized in telephone speakers and microphones throughout the following century, was created by Edison before the end of 1877.

The Phonograph:

Since the telephone was regarded as a form of acoustic telegraphy, Edison tried to develop a device for it in the summer of 1877, much like he had done for the automatic telegraph, that would translate signals as they were received, in this case in the form of the human voice, so that they could then be sent as telegraph messages. In December 1877, Edison debuted the tinfoil phonograph, which swapped the paper strip for a cylinder covered in tinfoil.

The Electric Light:

On July 29, 1878, there was a solar eclipse along the Rocky Mountains, and Samuel Langley, Henry Draper, and other American scientists sought very sensitive equipment that could be used to monitor minute temperature variations in heat emitted from the Sun's corona. For fifty years, the incandescent electric light had been the bane of inventors, but Edison's earlier successes made his pompous prognosis worthy of respect. Francis Upton, a Princeton University alumnus with an M.A. in science, was there to help him at age 26. Upton, who joined the laboratory staff in December 1878, gave Edison the mathematical and theoretical know-how he lacked.

The Edison Laboratory:

On February 24, 1886, Edison, a widower with three small children, wed Mina Miller, age 20, the daughter of a successful Ohio manufacturer. For his new bride, he bought a hilltop mansion in West Orange, New Jersey, and built a large, new laboratory nearby that he planned to be the first real research institution in the world. Nevertheless, Edison had already reached the height of his output. One of Thomas Edison's biggest supporters, Henry Ford, asked him to create a battery for the self-starter that would be featured on the Model T in 1912. In October 1929, Ford hosted a 50th-anniversary celebration of incandescent light, which evolved into an apotheosis for Edison around the world.

Legacy:           

The clustering of Edison's patents—389 for electric light and power, 195 for the phonograph, 150 for the telegraph, 141 for storage batteries, and 34 for the telephone—shows the focus of his efforts. His accomplishments and way of life bestow the ideal of applied research. Edison's career as an inventor was greatly influenced by his work as a machine shop operator and small manufacturer. Edison ran a creative business, in contrast to other scientists and inventors of the era who had little resources and no support system.

1. Never get discouraged if you fail. Learn from it. Keep trying.

2. Not everything of value in life comes from books- experience the world.

3. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

4. Never stop learning. Read the entire panorama of literature.

5. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

6. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

7. If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

8. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

9. The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

10. Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

11. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

12. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

13. I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by
work.

14. Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

15. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

16. The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

17. Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

18. Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work

19. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

20. When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

21. Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.