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Thomas Edison

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Thomas Edison

Darren Williams and Jesse Morgan

LIFE

  • Born in 1847
  • Died in 1931

INVENTIONS

  • Light Bulb
  • Quadruplex Telegraph
  • Movie Camera
  • Mimeograph
  • PhonoGraph
Photo by Brian Hoffsis

LIGHT BULB

  • Electric light that produces light using a wire
  • heated to a high temperature by an electric current
  • The light bulb allowed people during the industrial
  • revolution work during the night without using candlelight.
Photo by sandy.redding

QUADRUPLEX TELEGRAPH

  • An electrical telegraph that allowed signals
  • to be sent and received at the same time
  • The telegraph was used during the Civil War. It allowed
  • Lincoln to send and receive messages from the front lines.

MOVIE CAMERA

  • A type of photographic camera which takes
  • photographs on strips of film.
  • These camera are used to show images from around the
  • world and entertain us with movies, news, and sports.
Photo by sorundalasse

MIMEOGRAPH

  • A low cost printing press that works by forcing
  • ink through a stencil onto paper.
  • This innovation of the Printing press helped make
  • literature work cheaper to make.
Photo by natematias

PHONOGRAPH

  • A device that allowed sound recordings to be
  • Reproduced to houses across the world.
  • This device led to modern day radios. Also it let
  • Information be heard by anyone who had the device.
Photo by Vince Alongi