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
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others....
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
The dove is my emblem.
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.
Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application,
Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
Ideas without execution are hallucinations.
I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course ... It is mathematical in its precision.
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.
To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.
I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.