Thomas Alva Edison

 Thomas Alva Edison

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration."

Thomas Alva Edison was an inventor and innovator that was able to create 1,093 inventions throughout his life. We learn that Thomas Alva Edison was able to create the filamentous lightbulb that we all know is capable of producing light. We learn that the lightbulb was a great invention that allowed individuals to have needed lighting at night while preventing the dangers of using candles. We learn that lightbulbs have been preferred as a source of light that is safe and efficient. 

We learn that while Thomas Alva Edison was able to create different inventions, we would have difficulty believing that he also battled difficulties. Thomas Alva Edison was hard of hearing from an early age and also received formal schooling for three months. Even amidst all of this, he was able to keep being creative. Thomas Alva Edison is most notably known for being the most prolific inventor. He created the phonograph that allowed music to be heard. 

Thomas Alva Edison was able to help improve the telephone, typewriter, electric generator, motion picture, and also created a vote counting machine. We learn that Thomas Alva Edison was able to create or improve inventions that are still being used in today's time except for the vote counting machine. We learn that despite being creative, he described that he only wanted to create inventions that were useful. Thomas Alva Edison did not want to create inventions that no one wanted to use. 

We learn that Thomas Alva Edison is noted being an individual that was highly creative, industrious, and hard working. We learn we can be creative, industrious, and keep thriving amidst living in not the best of times. We learn that despite the times that we live in, we can keep going knowing that we can not be slothful, lazy, and envious. Instead, we can keep learning, keep being industrious, and fight against laziness and envy seeing good examples in industrious individuals.