THOMAS EDISON
The person I have chosen for Night of Notables is Thomas Edison. I chose this person because I am very interested in what Thomas Edison did as a young person but also what he did to produce all those amazing devices including the light bulb. I am very fascinated in science and inventing and I really want to learn as much as I can about this notable person.
Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. At the age of 10 Thomas actually built his very first lab from a book that his mother had gave him about science. Edison had developed hearing problems at his young age and when Thomas was at the age of 12 years old, he went completely deaf. To Thomas, in some way it was better so that he could concentrate better without being disturbed by loud noises.
Thomas Edison has made our lives easier. One of his marvellous inventions the light bulb is one thing that we use in our daily life, it assists and helps us by giving us light to read by and ultimately to light our cities, roads and homes. Movies and the phonograph gave the public two choices in entertainment. Prior to this, only books and stage productions provided the greatest forms of entertainment in that time of history.
Without Thomas Edison’s light bulb and other magnificent inventions of his, our world would not be as entertaining or as easy to live. Without Edison we would still be burning wood for energy. Our world would be a polluted more than ever and we won’t have enough trees to replace the oxygen.
