Thomas Midgley: The Worst Inventor In History

Moreover, Thomas Edison created the first industrial research laboratory. Not only was Edison a great innovator, but he also was a successful manufacturer and businessman.

However, it was Samuel Morse that would go down in history for bettering Joseph Henry's invention. Samuel made sketches of a "magnetized magnet" based on Henry's work. He then went on to invent a telegraph system that was a practical and commercial success.

Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847, to middle-class parents in the port of Milan, Ohio. The last of the seven children of Samuel and Nancy Edison. Edison had little education in his young life only learning how to read, write since he only attends school for a few months. His short-tempered teacher grew tired of Edison’s avid and eager questioning also his criticism towards the subject matter so he was expelled. This caused Edison to become a newsboy selling newspapers and candy on the local railroad that ran through Port Huron to Detroit at the age of thirteen. Edison would spend much of his spare time reading scientific, and technical books, and also had the opportunity at this

Imagine a world with no phones, computers, or even an easily accessible light source. If there were no technological inventions in the previous centuries, then our technology would not exist. Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. He had an entrepreneurial spirit at an early age and was very talented. Edison took out his first patent when he was 20 years old and his last one was taken out before his death. Overall, Thomas took out 1,093 patents. He is one of the most famous and influential inventors in the history of the world. Thomas Edison's inventions were numerous, but his most important contributions are the first electric light bulb, the phonograph, and motion pictures.

There were many contributors to making modern technology the way it is now. One of them was Ben Franklin. Another was Thomas Edison. Last was Alexander Graham Bell. All three of these people made many contributions to modern technology. Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell were all very famous inventors with inventions that changed modern technology.

Garret Morgan was also a great inventor whose invention had a major impact on the world. He had two major inventions in his life: the gas mask and the traffic light. Even though he has invented many things, Garret is known mostly for the traffic light. Take a second and think about what driving would be like without lights to direct traffic at an intersection. There would be a whole lot of accidents every day. Because of this, the impact of his invention is felt by everyone in the world on a daily basis. You cannot drive anywhere, almost, without seeing a traffic light at least one time and, on top of that, they have saved so many lives.

Robert Fulton was an engineer and inventor who is credited with the first practical submarine. Another inventor was Humphry Davy who was chemist and inventor; he is best known for his discoveries of several alkali. Frederick Albert Winzer was one of the pioneers of gas lighting, he is also credited with the metronome. Richard Trevithick was an inventor who was credited with the locomotive.

Another important invention was created by George Stephenson in 1814 and he inspired his steam powered train from factors of the steam engine. His invention was important because it increased the rates of communication and trade.

The film that I am reviewing, title “The Poisoner’s Handbook,” is based on Deborah Blums best-selling book, of the same title, which reflects on the most notorious cases between the years of 1918 and 1959 that were handled by Charles Norris, the chief medical examiner for New York City, also known and described by his peers as “the father of forensic toxicology in America,” and Alexander Oscar Gettler, toxicologist with the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, such as the fatal radium poisoning of the factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint at the Orange, New Jersey watch factory around the year 1917 and other cases that involve dangerous poisons, like arsenic, methanol, lead, carbon monoxide, denatured alcohol, radium and thallium. Their renowned work led to tougher regulations by the government and the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. The film depicts how the average American’s medicine cabinet, in the early 1900s, was a treasure chest of dangerous poisons that could make you ill, put you in a coma, and even kill you. These poisons were readily found in health tonics, depilatory creams, teething medicine, and cleaning supplies.

Thomas Alva Edison will always be an important figure in American History. his ingenious innovations he created were astonishing and marked a huge step for mankind towards the future. In the Biography written by Martin V. Melosi he explains in great detail how Thomas Edison's innovation shaped modern society in America. In the book Melosi states " Edison was hardly a modern man, but he left the world with a legacy of invention that helped to create the twentieth century as we know it."(Pg200)

By twenty-three he was considered one of the best electrical engineers in the country. In 1869 he partnered with Franklin Pope, and started a business called Pope. In 1870 he broke his partnership with Pope. In the fall of 1871 he created his own news service called News Reporting Telegraph Co. He also opened his own manufacturing company in Newark, New Jersey the same year. He sold his business in Newark in 1876. He had a lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey. In 1877 he found a way to improve Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone by putting tiny pieces of carbon in the mouthpiece. Thomas Edison called his workers “muckers”. The same year he gave mucker John Kruesi a sketch of the phonograph to make. In 1879 he made the first working light bulb. In 1882 he opened a successful electric power station in New York City. He built a lab about a mile away from Glenmont, New York. The lab was ten times the size of the Menlo Park lab; was three stories high and was 250 feet long. It was the largest, best equipped research lab in the world. The lab contained a physics lab, a chemistry lab, and a metallurgical lab. In 1886 he bought an abandoned factory in Schenectady, New York. In 1889 he started work on an instrument which “Does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear” (Edison). He also opened the world’s first motion picture studio in 1893. During World War I he was asked by the secretary of the Navy to head the Naval Consultation Board. The board was made up of scientists, inventors, and mathematicians. He was known to skip meals and get little sleep when in the middle of inventing. Often he would be found to take cat naps around the

To start out, in the midst of inventions being created that helped begin and make convenient the industrial age, there were also inventions that shaped the lives of American people today. First, the steam engine was created by Thomas Newman; although it wasn’t quite useful at the beginning, it soon became a necessity to those who shaped the industrial age. After that, things such as the telegraph by Samuel Morse and the sewing machine by Elias Howe were created - the

There is very little known about his early life, but he is said to have been a goldsmith apprentice. Johannes Gutenberg is most known for his invention of the printing press. In 1428, there was an uprising in Mainz against the patricians, so the Gutenbergs and many other families were forced to leave. They moved to Strasburg, France, where it is said his mother had an inherited estate.

One such inventor was Josiah Wedgwood, (1730 – 1795) came from a family of potters. At an early age he served as an apprentice

Leonardo Da Vinci, An artist, inventor, renaissance man. Thomas Edison, inventor, world changer. These two men are some of history’s greatest inventors. However, a question stands, who was truly the greatest inventor? Who invented the most useful things, who changed history the most?