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
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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.
There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.
Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
What man's mind can create, man's character can control.
There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.