Thomas Alva Edison is popularly known as wizard of Menlo park’. Edison was an American inventor and pioneer industrialist. He was self educated one of the great inventors of all time, Edison invented Incandescent bulb, phonograph and the movie camera or motion picture. He went on to completely transform societies all over the world. Carbon telephone transmitter is also attributed to him. He also developed storage batteries, dictating machines and the numeo graph duplicating machine. Several industries including electric light and power industry were based on his invention. In all he was granted 1097 US patents. In 1889, he applied for 141 patents or about are in every three days.

Thomas Alva Edison was born at Milan, USA. As a boy he was weak. He was taught by his mother. Initially he planned to print a newspaper. He set up his press in the train. It had a circulation of about 400 called Grand Trunk Herald. Somehow he met with an accident that made him deaf. Edison found his scientific apparatus burnt due to fire in the train. He was taught telegraphy. He learnt and patented. Once he sold his telegraph apparatus and got money. He set up his laboratory at Menlo park. He developed many items. He moved to a larger laboratory in 1887 in West orange, New Jersey. He invented earlier typewriter and electric pen. In 1889 he built a motion picture camera.

Edison was telling: Genius is one percent inspiration ninety nine percent perspiration.

Edison died in New Jersy on Oct 18, 1931. He missed the Nobel award for his work in electrical generation and supply along with Tesla. But Tesla did not like his name to be linked with his name.