Thomas Edison held over 1,000 patents in his name.¹⁾

He was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, USA.²⁾

Edison had only three months of formal education.³⁾

His curiosity led to his early experiments, including once starting a fire in his family's barn while conducting an experiment.⁴⁾

Edison became partially deaf at a young age, possibly due to scarlet fever or a genetic condition.⁵⁾

At age 21, he received his first patent for an electric vote recorder.⁶⁾

He invented the phonograph in 1877, allowing sound to be recorded and reproduced.⁷⁾

Edison didn’t invent the first electric light bulb, but he created a practical, long-lasting bulb.⁸⁾

He established a research lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey, which became the world's first industrial research laboratory.⁹⁾

Edison developed the first electric power system, lighting up parts of Manhattan in 1882.¹⁰⁾

Edison was a proponent of DC, while his rival Nikola Tesla championed AC.¹¹⁾

Edison and Tesla were involved in the “War of Currents,” a battle to dominate the electrical distribution market.¹²⁾

Edison worked on X-rays and improved the fluoroscope, a device used in early X-ray examinations.¹³⁾

He invented the Kinetoscope, an early motion picture camera.¹⁴⁾

Edison's lab created the first motion picture studio called the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.¹⁵⁾