# Thomas Alva Edison

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| "Jenius adolah satu persen inspirasi, sambilan puluah sambilan persen perspirasi." – Thomas Alva Edison, Harper's Monthly (September 1932) |
| Lahia | Thomas Alva Edison 11 Februari 1847 Milan, Ohio, A.S. |
| Maningga | 18 Oktober 1931 (umua 84) West Orange, New Jersey, A.S. |
| Kabangsaan | Amerika Serikat |
| Pandidikan | Kalua dari sakolah |
| Karojo | Panamu, pabisnis |
| Pasangan | Mary Stilwell
​ ​(m. 1871⁠–⁠1884)​
Mina Miller
​ ​(m. 1886⁠–⁠1931)​ |
| Anak | Marion Estelle Edison (1873–1965) Thomas Alva Edison Jr. (1876–1935) William Leslie Edison (1878–1937) Madeleine Edison (1888–1979) Charles Edison (1890–1969) Theodore Miller Edison (1898–1992) |
| Urang tuo | Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (1804–1896) Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871) |
| Dusanak | Lewis Miller (mertua) |
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(Inggirih) *A Day with Thomas Edison* (1922)
Thomas Edison
**Thomas Alva Edison** (lahia 11 Februari 1847 – maningga 18 Oktober 1931 pado umua 84 taun) adolah panamu jo pangusaha nan mangambangan banyak paralatan penting. Si Panyihir Menlo Park iko marupoan salah saurang panamu partamo nan menarapan prinsip produksi massal pado proses panamuan.

## Biografi

### Maso ketek

Inyo lahia di Milan, Ohio, Amerika Sarikat pado tanggal 11 Februari 1847. Pado maso keteknyo di Amerika Sarikat, Edison salalu mandapek nilai buruak di sakolahnyo. Oleh karano itu ibunyo membarantiannyo dari sakolah jo maaja surang di rumah. Di rumah jo leluasa Edison ketek dapek mambaco buku-buku ilmiah dewasa jo mulai maadoan babagai pacuboan ilmiah surang. Pado umua 12 taun inyo mulai bakarajo sabagai panjua koran, buah-buahan jo gulo-gulo di kareta api. Kamudian inyo manjadi operator telegraf, inyo pindah dari satu kota ka kota lain. Di New York inyo dimintak untuak manjadi kapalo masin telegraf nan penting. Masin-masin itu mangirimaan barito bisnis ka saluruah parusahaan takamuko di New York.

### Maso mudo

Pado taun 1870, inyo manamuan masin telegraf nan labiah baiak. Masin-masinnyo dapek mancetak pasan-pasan di ateh pita karateh nan panjang. Pitih nan dihasilan dari panamuannyo itu cukuik untuak managakan parusahaan surang. Pado taun 1874 inyo pindah ka Menlo Park, New Jersey. Disinan inyo mambuek sabuah bengke ilmiah nan gadang jo nan partamo di dunia. Satalah itu inyo banyak mangarajoan panamuan-panamuan nan penting. Pado taun 1877 inyo manamuan fonograf. Dalam taun 1879 inyo barasia manamuan lampu listrik keamdian inyo juo manamuan proyektor untuak film-film ketek.
Taun 1882 inyo mamasang lampu-lampu listrik di jalan-jalan jo rumah-rumah sajauah satu kilometer di kota New York. Hal iko adolah partamo kalinyo di dunia lampu listrik di pakai di jalan-jalan. Pado taun 1890, inyo managakan parusahaan General Electric.

Berkas:Edison face.jpgThomas Edison wakatu mudo
Edison dipandang sabagai salah saurang pancipta paliang produktif pado masonyo, mamacik rekor 1.093 paten ateh namonyo.
Inyo juo banyak mambantu dalam bidang patahanan pamarintahan Amerika Sarikat. Babarapo panelitiannyo antaro lain: mandeteksi pasawat tabang, manghancuan periskop jo sanjato masin, mandeteksi kapa selam, mambarantian torpedo jo jariang, manaiakan kakuatan torpedo, kapa kamuflase, jo masih banyak lai.

Inyo maningga pado usianyo nan ka-84, pado ari ulang taun panamuannyo nan takenal, bola lampu modern.

## Apresiasi

Pado taun 1928 inyo manarimo pangharagoan barupo sabuah madali kusuih dari Kongres Amerika Sarikat.

## Daftar pustaka

* Albion, Michele Wehrwein. (2008). *The Florida Life of Thomas Edison*. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-3259-7.
* Adams, Glen J. (2004). *The Search for Thomas Edison's Boyhood Home*. ISBN 978-1-4116-1361-4.
* Angel, Ernst (1926). *Edison. Sein Leben und Erfinden*. Berlin: Ernst Angel Verlag.
* Baldwin, Neil (2001). *Edison: Inventing the Century*. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-03571-0.
* Clark, Ronald William (1977). *Edison: The man who made the future*. London: Macdonald & Jane's: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-354-04093-8.
* Conot, Robert (1979). *A Streak of Luck*. New York: Seaview Books. ISBN 978-0-87223-521-2.
* Davis, L. J. (1998). *Fleet Fire: Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of the Electric Revolution*. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-47927-1.
* Essig, Mark (2004). *Edison and the Electric Chair*. Stroud: Sutton. ISBN 978-0-7509-3680-4.
* Essig, Mark (2003). *Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death*. New York: Walker & Company. ISBN 978-0-8027-1406-0.
* Jonnes, Jill (2003). *Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World*. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-375-50739-7.
* Josephson, Matthew (1959). *Edison*. McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-033046-7.
* Pretzer, William S. (ed). (1989). *Working at Inventing: Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Experience*. Dearborn, Michigan: Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. ISBN 978-0-933728-33-2.
* Stross, Randall E. (2007). *The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World*. Crown. ISBN 1-400-04762-5.

## Pranala luar

Lokasi
* Menlo Park Museum and Edison Memorial Tower
* Thomas Edison National Historical Park (National Park Service)
* Edison exhibit and Menlo Park Laboratory at Henry Ford Museum Archived 2006-04-24 di Wayback Machine.
* Edison Museum Archived 2010-11-24 di Wayback Machine.
* Edison Depot Museum Archived 2002-10-07 di Wayback Machine.
* Edison Birthplace Museum
* Thomas Edison House

Informasi dan media

* Thomas Edison di **In Our Time** di BBC. (listen now)
* The Diary of Thomas Edison
* (Inggirih) Karya-karya Thomas Edison di Proyek Gutenberg
* Edison's patent application for the light bulb at the National Archives.
* (Inggirih) Thomas Edison pado Internet Movie Database.
* Jan. 4, 1903: Edison Fries an Elephant to Prove His Point – Wired Magazine article about Edison's "macabre form of a series of animal electrocutions using AC."
* *The Invention Factory: Thomas Edison's Laboratories*
* *Edison, His Life and Inventions *by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin** di Project Gutenberg
* Rutgers: Edison Papers
* Edisonian Museum Antique Electrics
* "Edison's Miracle of Light Archived 2016-12-04 di Wayback Machine."
* Edison Innovation Foundation – Non-profit foundation supporting the legacy of Thomas Edison.
* Templat:Find a Grave
* The Illustrious Vagabonds Archived 2010-12-21 di Wayback Machine.
* "The World's Greatest Inventor", October 1931, Popular Mechanics detailed, illustrated article

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| Didaului jo: Lev Trotski | **Sampul majalah *Time | Digantian dek: Richard Swann Lull |