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Thomas alva edison
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Name
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Thomas Alva
Edison
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Birthdate
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February 11, 1847
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Place
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Milan, Ohio, U.S.
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Died
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October 18, 1931
(aged 84)
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Place
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West Orange, New
Jersey, U.S.
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Nationality
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American
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Education
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self educated
with visits to the Cooper Union
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Occupation
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Inventor,
businessman
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Religion
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Deist (previously
Congregationalist)
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Spouse(s)
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Mary Stilwell (m.
1871–84)
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Mina Miller (m.
1886–1931)
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Children
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Marion Estelle
Edison (1873–1965)
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Thomas Alva
Edison Jr. (1876–1935)
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William Leslie
Edison (1878–1937)
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Madeleine Edison
(1888–1979)
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Charles Edison
(1890–1969)
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Theodore Miller
Edison (1898–1992)
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Parent(s)
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Samuel Ogden
Edison, Jr. (1804–1896)
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Nancy Matthews
Elliott (1810–1871)
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INVENTIONS
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1863
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Automatic
Telegraph Repeater
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1869
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Electric Vote
Recorder
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1875
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Quadruplex
Telegraph
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1877
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Phonograph
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1877
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Carbon Microphone
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1879
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Incandescent
Light Bulb Improvement
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1880
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Electric Power
Distribution
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1885
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Wireless
Telegraph
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1891
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Kinetograph &
Kinetoscope
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1896
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Fluoroscope
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1904
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Alkaline Storage
Battery Improvement
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More than 1000
patents
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AWARDS
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The President of
the Third French Republic, Jules Grévy, on the recommendation of his Minister
of Foreign Affairs Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire and with the presentations
of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Louis Cochery, designated Edison with
the distinction of an 'Officer of the Legion of Honour' (Légion d'honneur) by
decree on November 10, 1881; He also named a Chevalier in 1879, and a
Commander in 1889.
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In 1887, Edison
won the Matteucci Medal. In 1890, he was elected a member of the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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The Philadelphia
City Council named Edison the recipient of the John Scott Medal in 1889.
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In 1899, Edison
was awarded the Edward Longstreth Medal of The Franklin Institute
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He was named an
Honorable Consulting Engineer at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's
fair in 1904.
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In 1908, Edison
received the American Association of Engineering Societies John Fritz Medal.
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In 1915, Edison
was awarded Franklin Medal of The Franklin Institute for discoveries
contributing to the foundation of industries and the well-being of the human
race.
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In 1920, The
United States Navy department awarded him the Navy Distinguished Service
Medal.
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In 1923, The
American Institute of Electrical Engineers created the Edison Medal and he
was its first recipient.
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In 1927, he was
granted membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
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On May 29, 1928,
Edison received the Congressional Gold Medal.
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In 1983, the
United States Congress, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 140 (Public Law
97—198), designated February 11, Edison's birthday, as National Inventor's
Day.
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Life magazine
(USA), in a special double issue in 1997, placed Edison first in the list of
the "100 Most Important People in the Last 1000 Years", noting that
the light bulb he promoted "lit up the world". In the 2005
television series The Greatest American, he was voted by viewers as the
fifteenth-greatest.
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In 2008, Edison
was inducted in the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
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In 2010, Edison
was honored with a Technical Grammy Award.
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In 2011, Edison
was inducted into the Entrepreneur Walk of Fame, and named a Great Floridian
by the Florida Governor and Cabinet
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Places and people
named for Edison
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Several places
have been named after Edison, most notably the town of Edison, New Jersey.
Thomas Edison State College, a nationally known college for adult learners,
is in Trenton, New Jersey. Two community colleges are named for him : Edison
State College in Fort Myers, Florida, and Edison Community College in Piqua,
Ohio. There are numerous high schools named after Edison (see Edison High
School) and other schools including Thomas A. Edison Middle School.
Footballer Pelé's father originally named him Edson, as a tribute to the
inventor of the light bulb, but the name was incorrectly listed on his birth
certificate as "Edison".
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In 1883, the City
Hotel in Sunbury, Pennsylvania was the first building to be lit with Edison's
three-wire system. The hotel was renamed The Hotel Edison upon Edison's
return to the City on 1922.
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Lake Thomas A
Edison in California was named after Edison to mark the 75th anniversary of
the incandescent light bulb.
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Edison was on
hand to turn on the lights at the Hotel Edison in New York City when it
opened in 1931.
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Three bridges
around the United States have been named in Edison's honor
the Edison Bridge
in New Jersey, the Edison Bridge in Florida, and the Edison Bridge in Ohio.
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In space, his
name is commemorated in asteroid 742 Edisona.
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Awards named in
honor of Edison
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The Edison Medal
was created on February 11, 1904, by a group of Edison's friends and
associates. Four years later the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
(AIEE), later IEEE, entered into an agreement with the group to present the
medal as its highest award. The first medal was presented in 1909 to Elihu
Thomson. It is the oldest award in the area of electrical and electronics
engineering, and is presented annually "for a career of meritorious
achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering or the electrical
arts."
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In the
Netherlands, the major music awards are named the Edison Award after him. The
award is an annual Dutch music prize, awarded for outstanding achievements in
the music industry, and is one of the oldest music awards in the world,
having been presented since 1960.
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The American
Society of Mechanical Engineers concedes the Thomas A. Edison Patent Award to
individual patents since 2000.
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