Thomas Edison, who illuminated the world, never gave up

The great American inventor and businessman Thomas Elva Edison was born on 11 February 1847. His name is 1,093 patents. Which reflects their hard work. Today the world considers their inventions iron. The great scientist who went through poverty in childhood never lost courage. At the same time, the discovery of electric bulbs is considered his greatest discovery.

Know these interesting things about Thomas Edison ...   

- He had to work hard in inventing the electric bulb. Edison failed to make bulbs more than 10,000 times. To which he said, 'I have never failed, but I took out 10,000 such paths which could not work for me'.

- Edison had built his first laboratory at just 10 years of age. His mother gave him a book in which many chemical experiments were given. Edison liked this book and spent all his money on chemicals and did all these experiments.

- Thomas Edison needed money to continue his experiments in childhood. He used to sell newspapers and vegetables in the train to earn money.

- When any of his experiments were to be completed, he would continue for 4-4 consecutive days till the end of this experiment without sleeping. Also, while working, we often forgot to eat our food.

- From 1879 to 1900, Edison had done all his major discoveries and he had become a scientist as well as a wealthy businessman.

- For the first time, it cost 40 thousand dollars to make bulbs.

- He developed a carbon thread filament with high resistance, which could last up to 40 hours.

- To see 40 electric light bulbs burning, 3 thousand people gathered. After that, after opening the Pearl Street Power Station in New York City, electricity was started to be delivered to the customers.

- Thomas Edison rescued a 3-year-old child from under the train at the age of 14. The father of that child thanked Edison. Also taught Edison how to run a telegram machine. Later, Edison also got a job at a station about running telegrams somewhere. He got his job done at night, so that he could get more time for experiments.

- Thomas Edison died on 18 October 1931.

- There is a famous saying ''Tomorrow is my exam, but i don't care because not a single sheet of paper can decide my future''. These days most of the student follow this saying. these quote has also been called by the famous scientist Thomas Edison  

AUTHOR- BANTI GROVER