Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Alva Edisonwas an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth11 February 1847
CountryUnited States of America
Thomas A. Edison quotes about
I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.
My mother was the making of me.
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
Ideas without execution are hallucinations.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions....
I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use.
Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
Consider data without prejudice.
The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
I try not to invent things that people don't need.