It was a chilled morning of December. Streets were concealed by the snow which was spilling since last two days. The weather was misty and foggy with too much cold. Since the dawn, people in aggregation have started to heap in the Menlo Park and by the noon, park became saturated. People have parked themselves heedlessly at every possible bared place seen to them.
They were not having a single clue about what they will witness today. With a feeling of anxiety and apprehension, people were rumbling about the contrary out come if any thing goes wrong.
Suddenly, great crowd fell silent as a man with actuate demeanor stepped forward precociously. The sun which had been obscured all the day, suddenly burst through the clouds and flooded the scene with brightness.
He took the centermost place and with his quivering hands, he has started to join the filament of wire. After half an hour of humbug with the wire, he was now ready to press the apparatus’s switch.
Unfamiliar wave of disquiet has erupted in the atmosphere but the anxiety which was their in the air wont able to shaken his posture. In comply with his composure; he was aware of the great importance of this moment and the potential influence his experiment would cast on the world.
As he pressed the switch, electron energy has started to surge down through the legion of copper wires which were entangled with each other. As soon the current reached to the electric bulb which was connected at posterior end, it provides the electric impetus to it and bulb illuminates after initial shimmers.
It was the morning of 31st December 1879 and the man who had performed this historic experiment was Thomas Edison. On this milepost, he said,” We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. He was born on 11th February 1847 in Milan, Ohio. In the period of 84 years of his life he has made 1,093 US patents on his name, as well as many patents in UK, France and Germany.
Edison was so much passionate for engineering and invention that when he was 22 years old he went to New York. He only had $1 in his pocket. He used to hunt for a job during the day, and at night he slept in the basement of a gold company. He watched everything around him very closely. Some equipment broke down and Edison was able to fix it because he had been watching it work before he went to sleep each night. The owners gave him a job. He improved the machine so much the company paid him $40,000 for his invention.
Thomas has dominated his life through the positive attitudes towards it. Despite of all the adversities he had faced in his life, he kept on moving ahead. Once he said that,” If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward".
Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home, "Glenmont" in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey.
Edison's last breath is reportedly contained in a test tube at the Henry Ford Museum. Henry Ford, close friend of Edison sealed a test tube of air shortly after his death, as a memento.
Truly, Thomas Edison was one the greatest scientist we ever had. He was a man made of his perspiration that’s might be why he said one, “Genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration”.
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