Thomas Edison(Tech. Review)

Started working as a telegraph operator at the age of what?

15 years old

The light bulb was patented first in_____, 6 years BEFORE Edison was born, but the bulb wouldn't last for more than seconds.

1841

_____,Philadelphia industry exposition he first saw the inventions of the telephone.

1876

In____Edison made a premature promise to light up downtown Manhattan in a few weeks, he got more investors.

1878

On October 27,____, Edison finally had success, the bulb burned for over 18 hours

1879

At the age of what did he moved to New York and worked on inventions & production from the telegraph materials?

22 years old

At age 29, he became a_________

A full time inventor

Edison uses the idea of a diaphragm from______telephone and from one of the inventions from the telegraph, and he invented the phonograph.

Alexander Graham Bell

Definition: Money

Capital

For the light bulb, Edison began experimenting with using a______.

Carbon Filament

On December 31, 1879, Edison showed the world his new invention the_____

Light bulb

He made enough money making small inventions for the telegraph to build a large invention lab in_________.And hire staff

Menlo Park, NJ

He wanted to have a minor invention every______and major invention every______

Minor invention 10 days, major invention 1 month

Definition: One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise

Entrepreneur

True or False: Business JP Morgan and other investors were patient with Edison.

False: Business JP Morgan and other investors were IMPATIENT with Edison

True or False: People let Edison invent whatever he wants and see if the people need it.

False: People would come to Edison with ideas and ask him to invent it

Edison's wife couldn't handle all the______

Fame

_______ a Princeton educated physicist started working for Edison in Edison's quest to invent the light bulb.

Francis Upton

After months and month of not inventing the light bulb, people were criticizing Edison as a____

Fraud

In 1879, Edison started to use a________, got better results.

High vacuum bulb

What did Thomas Edison taught himself?

Morse code

Edison also needs to invent a system to light up______(sockets, wiring, generators etc.)

Neighborhoods

Edison had to improve the______because the industry wanted to use it.

Phonograph

Edison was a celebratory after the invention of what?

Phonograph

Edison was always thinking of better ways to solve_____

Problems

People all over the world were trying to invent what?

The light bulb

Who saw and told Edison to work on the telephone?

Western Union

Edison thought he can record something from what?

The phone

It was Thomas Edison's first interest in improving things.

The telegraph

Definition: To change something completely and usually in a good way

Transform

True or False: Edison did invent a better telephone than Alexander Graham Bell, and made a lot of money on his invention. Bell hardly made anything on it.

True

True or False: Edison works 18 hours, 6 days only seeing his family on Sunday for a few hours.

True

True or False: He easily got investors in his quest to invent the light bulb because of his fame as an inventor.

True