Thomas Edison Accomplishments

The trains were racing up and down the track. Thomas Edison was sitting next to them as they rumbled by. When the stationmaster's young son wandered onto the track. Edison didn’t think as a train came barreling down the tracks and he ran out tackling the child saving his life. The stationmaster rewarded him by teaching him to how to use telegraph and read morse code. That was an amazing gift at the time. Edison was grateful for the gift and it allowed him to travel around the United States learning new things. It was an amazing opportunity for Edison and it allowed him to expand his knowledge leading to his other inventions(“Thomas Alva Edison Biography”)

Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 he was the son of Samuel Edison and Nancy. He died on October 18, 1931. His father was exiled from Canada and his mother was an accomplished school teacher. He started learning

He had many assistants and workers(“Thomas Edison Biography”). He didn’t have many people that helped him that could be called partners, accept William Dickson. William helped Edison create the motion picture camera, but Edison get’s most of the credit for it’s creation. Edison had over 300 companies and many different workplaces(Beals). He had two main workspaces the West Orange laboratory in New Jersey and the Menlo Park laboratory in between Philadelphia and New York(“Thomas Alva Edison Biography”).

Some things he did didn’t turn out well. He spent some time with the electric car ultimately being beat by the gas powered car because of cheapness of fuel. He invested in a full blown iron mining operation that completely failed. He did salvage some of the machines he created for mining turning them into a cement mixer that was better than the ones used at the time. His cement machines made cement for the Yankees stadium. This proves that although it may not seem like the best thing at the time it can end up quite well in the