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See also:EDISON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:ALVA (1847– ) , See also:American inventor, was See also:born on the lrth of See also:February 1847, at See also:Milan, See also:Erie See also:county, See also:Ohio, of mixed Dutch and Scottish descent; but his parents moved to See also:Port See also:Huron, See also:Michigan, when he was seven years old. At the See also:age of twelve he became a See also:train See also:news-boy an the railway to See also:Detroit, and managed to gratify his youthful See also:interest in See also:chemistry by performing experiments while travelling. At fifteen he became a See also:telegraph operator, and was employed in many cities in the See also:United States and See also:Canada, but frequently neglected his duties in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to carry on studies and experiments in See also:electrical See also:science. Before he was twenty-one he had constructed an automatic repeater, by means of which a See also:message could be transferred from one See also:wire to another without the aid of an operator; and he had also directed his See also:attention to the problem of duplex telegraphy, of which he later invented a successful See also:system. In 1869 Edison came to New See also:York See also:city, and soon afterwards became connected with the See also:Gold & Stock See also:Company. He invented an improved See also:printing telegraph for stock quotations, for which he received $40,000. He then established a laboratory and factory in See also:Newark, N.J., for further experiments and for the manufacture of his inventions. In 1876 he removed to Menlo See also:Park, and later to See also:West See also:Orange, N. J., where he continued his experiments. Since then his name has been prominently associated with all kinds of novelties in See also:practical See also:electricity. Among his See also:principal inventions are his system of duplex telegraphy, which he later See also:developed into quadruplex and sextuplex trans-See also:mission; his See also:carbon See also:telephone transmitter; the microtasimeter, for the detection of small See also:variations in temperature; the See also:phonograph, which records and reproduces all manner of sounds; the See also:cinematograph, which his improvements made practicable; and his method of preparing carbon filaments for the incandescent electric See also:lamp. In 1878 Edison was made a See also:chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour by the See also:French See also:government.
End of Article: EDISON, THOMAS ALVA (1847– )
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