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Inventor and businessman · 1847–1931 · Exploration & Innovation
Held 1,093 US patents, built the first industrial research laboratory, and turned invention itself into an organised business.
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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
attributed to Edison
Edison was a telegraph operator in his teens, deaf enough by then that he said it helped him concentrate. His Menlo Park laboratory, opened in 1876, was the real invention: a paid team of machinists and chemists working through problems systematically. Out of it came the phonograph, a practical incandescent lamp with a carbonised bamboo filament, and the whole system needed to make electric light usable — generators, meters, insulated mains, the Pearl Street station that lit lower Manhattan in 1882. He fought Westinghouse and Tesla over alternating current and lost. He also worked on motion pictures, alkaline batteries and a long, unprofitable ore-milling venture.
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You can put that to the Thomas Edison persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Thomas Edison’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1847–1931, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Thomas Edison persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Thomas Edison’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1847–1931, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Thomas Edison persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Thomas Edison’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1847–1931, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Thomas Edison persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Thomas Edison’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1847–1931, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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