Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison
	; Edison, 1922
Lahir	11 Februari 1847; Milan, Ohio
Meninggal	18 Oktober 1931 (umur 84); West Orange, New Jersey
Pekerjaan	penemu, ilmuwan, pengusaha
Agama	Deist
Pasangan	Mary Stilwell (m. 1871–1884); Mina Edison (m. 1886–1931)
Anak	Marion Estelle Edison (1873–1965); Thomas Alva Edison Jr. (1876–1935); William Leslie Edison (1878–1937); Madeleine Edison (1888–1979); Charles Edison (1890–1969); Theodore Miller Edison (1898–1992)
Orang tua	Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (1804–1896); Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871)
Kerabat	Lewis Miller (morotuwo)

(Inggris) A Day with Thomas Edison (1922)

Thomas Alva Edison (lair 11 Februari 1847 – seda 18 Oktober 1931 dong umure 84 taun) kuwe penemu lan pengusaha sing ngembangna akeh peralatan penting. Thomas Alva Edison kiye penemu pertama sing nerapna prinsip produksi massal maring proses penemuan.

Biografi

Masa cilik

Thomas Alva Edison lair nang Milan, Ohio, Amerika Serikat tanggal 11 Februari 1847. Dong esih cilik nang Amerika Serikat, Edison mesti olih biji sing elek nang sekolahe. Mulane Edison banjur metu sekang sekolah lan diwulang nang biyunge dhewek nang omah. Nang omah Edison cilik teyeng maca buku-buku ilmiah wong gedhe lan mulai gawe percobaan ilmiah dhewek. Dong umure 12 taun Thomas Alva Edison mulai kerja dodolan koran, buah-buahan lan kembang-gula nang sepur. Terus Edison dadi operator telegraf, dheweke pindah sekang siji kota maring kota liyane. Nang New York, Thomas Alva Edison dijaluk dadi kepala mesin telegraf sing penting. Mesin-mesin kuwe ngirimna berita bisnis maring kabeh perusahaan penting nang New York.

Masa enom

Taun 1870 Thomas Alva Edison nemokna mesin telegraf sing lewih apik. Mesin-mesine teyeng nyetak pesen-pesen nang pita kertas ding dawa. Duwit sekang hasile penemuan kuwe cukup kanggo ndirikna perusahaan dhewek. Taun 1874 Thomas Alva Edison pindah maring Menlo Park, New Jersey. Nang kana Thomas Alva Edison gawe bengkel ilmiah sing gede lan sing pertama nang donya. Seuwise kuwe Thomas Alva Edison nggawe akeh penemuan-penemuan sing penting. Taun 1877 Thomas Alva Edison nemukna Gramofon. Taun 1879 Thomas Alva Edison nemukna lampu listrik, uga nemukna proyektor kanggo film-film cilik. Taun 1882 Thomas Alva Edison masang lampu-lampu listrik nang dalan-dalan lan umah-umah nganti jarak siji kilometer nang kota New York. Kiye pertama kali nang donya lampu listrik dienggo nang dalan. Taun 1890, Thomas Alva Edison ndirikna perusahaan General Electric.

Edison kuwe dianggep dadi salah sijining pencipta sing paling produktif nang jamane, nyekel rekor 1.093 paten atas jenenge. Thomas Alva Edison uga akeh ngrewanginang bidang pertahanan pemerentahan Amerika Serikat. Hasil penelitiane antara liya: ndeteksi pesawat terbang, nghancurna periskop nganggo senjata mesin, ndeteksi kapal selam, ngendhegna torpedo nganggo jaring, ningkatna kekuatan torpedo, kapal kamuflase, lan esih akeh sing liyane.

Thomas Alva Edison séda umur 84, pas dina ulang tahun penemuane sing kondang, bola lampu modern.

Apresiasi

Taun 1928 Thomas Alva Edison nampa penghargaan medali khusus sekang Kongres Amerika Serikat.

Daftar pustaka

Albion, Michele Wehrwein. (2008). The Florida Life of Thomas Edison. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-3259-7.
Adams, Glen J. (2004). The Search for Thomas Edison's Boyhood Home. ISBN 978-1-4116-1361-4.
Angel, Ernst (1926). Edison. Sein Leben und Erfinden. Berlin: Ernst Angel Verlag.
Baldwin, Neil (2001). Edison: Inventing the Century. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-03571-0.
Clark, Ronald William (1977). Edison: The man who made the future. London: Macdonald & Jane's: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-354-04093-8.
Conot, Robert (1979). A Streak of Luck. New York: Seaview Books. ISBN 978-0-87223-521-2.
Davis, L. J. (1998). Fleet Fire: Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of the Electric Revolution. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-47927-1.
Essig, Mark (2004). Edison and the Electric Chair. Stroud: Sutton. ISBN 978-0-7509-3680-4.
Essig, Mark (2003). Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death. New York: Walker & Company. ISBN 978-0-8027-1406-0.
Jonnes, Jill (2003). Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-375-50739-7.
Josephson, Matthew (1959). Edison. McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-033046-7.
Pretzer, William S. (ed). (1989). Working at Inventing: Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Experience. Dearborn, Michigan: Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. ISBN 978-0-933728-33-2.
Stross, Randall E. (2007). The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World. Crown. ISBN 1-400-04762-5.

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Lokasi

Informasi lan media

Cithakan:In Our Time
The Diary of Thomas Edison
Cithakan:Gutenberg author
Edison's patent application for the light bulb at the National Archives.
(Inggris) Thomas Edison nang Internet Movie Database.
Jan. 4, 1903: Edison Fries an Elephant to Prove His Point – Wired Magazine article about Edison's "macabre form of a series of animal electrocutions using AC."
The Invention Factory: Thomas Edison's Laboratories
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin', nang Proyek Gutenberg
Rutgers: Edison Papers
Edisonian Museum Antique Electrics
"Edison's Miracle of Light"
Edison Innovation Foundation – Non-profit foundation supporting the legacy of Thomas Edison.
Cithakan:Find a Grave
The Illustrious Vagabonds
"The World's Greatest Inventor", October 1931, Popular Mechanics detailed, illustrated article

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