Moustapha El Ftouh
Haytham Ben Allal
THOMAS
EDISON
INVENTOR
BIOGRAPHY :
Thomas Alva Edison was
born on February 11, 1847
in Milan, Ohio; the
seventh and last child of
Samuel and Nancy
Edison. When Edison
was seven his family
moved to Port Huron,
Michigan. Edison lived
here until he struck out
on his own at the age of
sixteen. Edison had very
little formal education
as a child, attending
school only for a few
months. He was taught
reading, writing, and
arithmetic by his
mother, but was always
a very curious child and
taught himself much by
reading on his own. This
belief in self-
improvement remained
throughout his life.
Sami Hachoum
FUN FACTS :
He was homeschooled and self
taught
He was deaf from an age
He held over 1093 patents in the
US alone
His net wourth was around 170
million dollars
INVENTIONS :
Phonograph
Electrographic Vote-recorder
Lightbulb
BIGGEST ACCOMSPLISHMENTS :
Edison was the quintessential American
inventor in the era of Yankee ingenuity. He
began his career in 1863, in the adolescence
of the telegraph industry, when virtually the
only source of electricity was primitive
batteries putting out a low-voltage current.
Before he died, in 1931, he had played a
critical role in introducing the modern age
of electricity. From his laboratories and
workshops emanated the phonograph, the
carbon-button transmitter for the telephone
speaker and microphone, the incandescent
lamp, a revolutionary generator of
unprecedented efficiency, the first
commercial electric light and power system,
an experimental electric railroad, and key
elements of motion-picture apparatus, as
well as a host of other inventions.