| Thomas Edison Gifts
This American inventor and businessman was born on February 11, 1847. He invented the phonograph, and the long-lasting light bulb. One newspaper reported deemed him “The Wizard of Menlo Park” for all his inventions and devices. He was an inventor right off the bat. He died on October 18, 1931. Edison holds 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as others in the U.K., France, and Germany. He couldn’t focus on his school work, so he only attended for three months. Unfortunately, he developed hearing problems at a very early age, but it didn’t stop him from developing his own research laboratory. Because he also had an aptitude for business, he was able to maximize the profits from his inventions through the establishment of mass-production systems and intellectual property rights. He died on October 18, 1931 of natural causes, but he sure did contribute a lot of bright ideas.
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“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
“I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.”
“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.” |
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