worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. * Statement in a press conference (1929)‚ as quoted in Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison‚ Henry Ford‚ Harvey Firestone‚ Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James D. Newton‚ p. 24. * Variant forms without early citation: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly‚ a ’genius’
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|The Biography of Thomas Edison | |"... Thomas Edison was more responsible than any one else for creating the modern world .... No one did more to shape the physical/cultural | |makeup of present day civilization.... Accordingly‚ he was the most influential figure of the millennium...." | |The Heroes Of The Age: Electricity And Man
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When Thomas Edison was working on the invention of the light bulb he said‚ “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10‚000 ways that won’t work.” Even though Thomas Edison did not call his mistakes failures‚ he learned from them‚ and continued to try other combinations until he finally succeeded. People fail‚ just like Thomas Edison‚ but they can make the choice to learn from their mistakes. William Zinsser‚ the author of “College Pressures” discusses the importance and value failure can have in people’s
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create a comfortable safe environment. The light bulb was invented in 1879 using lower current electricity‚ a small carbonized filament‚ and an improved vacuum inside the globe; this was not an original invention by Edison this was an improved invention by Edison from 50 years ago. Edison was able to produce a reliable‚ long-lasting source of light. The idea of electric lighting was not new‚ and a number of people had worked on‚ and even developed forms of electric lighting. But up to that time‚ nothing
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Thomas Edison’s invention of the lightbulb was so significant that it is still effecting society to today. Thomas Edison’s lightbulb had to consist of three things‚ the first being a durable incandescent material‚ the second thing the lightbulb needed was to eliminate the oxygenation from the bulb‚ and the last thing the lightbulb needed was a filament material of high resistance. The first lightbulb was going to be made out of platinum‚ however‚ platinum was very expensive to distribute to homes
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have electromagnetic lighting today. · Tesla was born on July 9‚ 1856 in Smiljan‚ Croatia · his father was a clergymen in the Greek church. · Tesla emigrated to the United States in 1884. · He quickly was employed by Edison (Thomas Edison) · he did not agree with Thomas Edison on how to run a lab so he quit and quickly established his own. · Water has lab. He developed the alternating current electrical path‚ knowned as (AC) · Tesla used florescent bulbs about 40 years before industry started
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Edwin Stanton Porter was born on April 21‚ 1870 in Pennsylvania. He had grown up with his parents Thomas Richard Porter and Mary Jane Clark. He had worked in the electrical field at first and began experiencing with electricity. He had worked with light bulb currents and telegraphs. In early 1890’s he had opened his own small business as a tailor‚ until 1893‚ when he had joined the Navy. He served there as an electrician and telegraph operator. With his help communications were improved. After a
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Tesla is not very well known for most of his inventions‚ even though most modern people use them everyday without even knowing. The world would be different without Nikola Tesla‚ because had Tesla not invented the Alternating Current motor‚ Thomas Edison would have successfully developed and sold his Direct Current motor. In order for direct current to be used‚ a power source must be within a quarter-mile from the source in order to transmit electricity‚ instead of alternating current‚ which can
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I sat there in darkness as the lights in my house went out‚ I could not see. Scared and alone I was beginning to worry but my fear slowly faded when my lights flickered back on. I soon realised just how dependant I was on electricity and light bulbs for my everyday life. Light bulbs have helped people bond more with their families at home‚ extend work hours because workers could now see with the illumination from the lights and helped boost the economy due to the faster production of materials and
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‘’We learn from failure‚ not from success’’ The greatest achievements in life are the ones that are most difficult to overcome. The challenges that require you to give it you’re all‚ and leave everything out there. In life failure has a negative connotation‚ but what most people don’t know‚ is that defeats are actually the steppingstones that lead us to success. Many of us try to evade failure but in fact‚ ‘’we learn from failure‚ not from success.’’ On a day-to-day basis many lessons have been
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