Thomas Edison 1847
to 1931
Born
on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison rose from humble beginnings
to work as an inventor of major technology. Setting up a lab in Menlo Park,
some of the products he developed included the telegraph, phonograph, electric
light bulb, alkaline storage batteries and Kinetograph (a camera for motion
pictures). He died on October 18, 1931, in West Orange, New Jersey.
He was educated 1
to 1 by his mother plus she was a teacher herself. He was a very slow learning
plus he had hearing difficulties which got worse right through to old age.
Younger Years
Inventor Thomas
Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. He was the last of
the seven children of Samuel and Nancy Edison. Thomas's father was an exiled
political activist from Canada. His mother, an accomplished school teacher, was
a major influence in Thomas’ early life. An early bout with scarlet fever as
well as ear infections left him with hearing difficulties in both ears, a
malady that would eventually leave him nearly deaf as an adult. Edison would
later recount as an adult, with variations on the story, that he lost his
hearing due to a train incident where his ears were injured. But others have
tended to discount this as the sole cause of his hearing loss.
In 1854, the
family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, where Edison attended public school for a
total of 12 weeks. A hyperactive child, prone to distraction, he was deemed
"difficult" by his teacher. His mother quickly pulled him from school
and taught him at home. At age 11, he showed a voracious appetite for
knowledge, reading books on a wide range of subjects. In this wide-open
curriculum Edison developed a process for self-education and learning
independently that would serve him throughout his life.
Early Career
At age 12, Edison
set out to put much of that education to work. He convinced his parents to let
him sell newspapers to passengers along the Grand Trunk Railroad line.
Exploiting his access to the news bulletins teletype to the station office each
day, Thomas began publishing his own small newspaper, called the Grand
Trunk Herald. The up-to-date articles were a hit with passengers. This was the
first of what would become a long string of entrepreneurial ventures where he
saw a need and capitalized on opportunity.
Edison also used
his access to the railroad to conduct chemical experiments in a small
laboratory he set up in a train baggage car. During one of his experiments, a
chemical fire started and the car caught fire. The conductor rushed in and
struck Thomas on the side of the head, probably furthering some of his hearing
loss. He was kicked off the train and forced to sell his newspapers at various
stations along the route.
While he worked
for the railroad, a near-tragic event turned fortuitous for the young man.
After Edison saved a 3-year-old from being run over by an errant train, the
child’s grateful father rewarded him by teaching him to operate a telegraph. By
age 15, he had learned enough to be employed as a telegraph operator. For the
next five years, Edison travelled throughout the Midwest as an itinerant
telegrapher, subbing for those who had gone to the Civil War. In his spare time,
he read widely, studied and experimented with telegraph technology, and became
familiar with electrical science.
In 1866, at age 19,
Edison moved to Louisville, Kentucky, working for The
Associated Press. The
night shift allowed him to spend most of his time reading and experimenting. He
developed an unrestricted style of thinking and inquiry, proving things to
himself through objective examination and experimentation. Initially, Edison
excelled at his telegraph job because early Morse code was inscribed on a piece
of paper, so Edison's partial deafness was no handicap. However, as the
technology advanced, receivers were increasingly equipped with a sounding key,
enabling telegraphers to "read" message by the sound of the clicks.
This left Edison disadvantaged, with fewer and fewer opportunities for
employment.
In 1868, Edison
returned home to find his beloved mother was falling into mental illness and
his father was out of work. The family was almost destitute. Edison realized he
needed to take control of his future. Upon the suggestion of a friend, he
ventured to Boston, landing a job for the Western Union Company. At the time,
Boston was America's center for science and culture, and Edison reveled in it.
In his spare time, he designed and patented an electronic voting recorder for
quickly tallying votes in the legislature. However, Massachusetts lawmakers
were not interested. As they explained, most legislators didn't want votes
tallied quickly. They wanted time to change the minds of fellow legislators.
Alexander
Graham Bell's Achievement.
The idea of
actually transmitting speech electronically over long distances had always been
a concept that had fascinated Aleck. He had already given a lot of thought as
to how it might be done, inspired by his investigations into the telegraph.
In 1875 he
produced his first simple receiver which was capable of transforming electrical
impulses into audible sound.
sound and
the patent for this remarkable and world-changing in Beethoven’s Life 1770 - 1827.
Ludwig van Beethoven was a complex man
consumed by a towering genius – all the more remarkable for the deafness with
which he struggled. He lived a life driven by an unquenchable need to make music.
His legacy is music that still delights, challenges, and moves us. Born in
Bonn, Germany on December 17, 1770 (or perhaps a day earlier according to some
records), Beethoven had a miserable childhood. He was one of seven children,
only three of whom survived to adulthood. Although he loved his gentle mother,
Maria, he feared his hard-drinking, demanding father, Johann. His father had no
great talent, but he gave music lessons to the children of the nobility. From
the time Ludwig was a small boy, turning the iron handle of window shutters to
hear the musical noise, the child had been absorbed by music. His father
recognized the boy’s ability and nurtured it, possibly because he saw it as a
source of income. In 1787, when he was seventeen, Beethoven made his first trip
to Vienna, the city that would become his home. There, he was quickly immersed
in the life of Europe’s cultural capital, even playing the piano for Mozart.
Mozart’s prediction was: “You will make a big noise in the world.”v
Mention was Beethoven’s stay was cut short by
a series of family tragedies. He returned to Bonn to his dying mother. Shortly
after, his infant sister died. When his father lost his job, Beethoven had to
take responsibility for the family. After his father’s death in 1792, Beethoven
returned to Vienna for good. The serious boy had grown into a man who was by
turns rude and violent, kind and generous. He helped raise money for the only
surviving child of Johann Sebastian Bach, who was living in poverty, and he
donated new compositions for a benefit concert in aid of Ursula nuns. Despite
his temper, Beethoven attracted friends easily. He studied piano with composer
Franz Joseph Haydn. And even though the student-teacher relationship failed the
two remained friends. In Vienna, Beethoven also met Mozart’s rival, Antonio Saltier
– the man rumoured to have poisoned Mozart. Saltier was kind to Beethoven and,
in return, Beethoven dedicated three violin sonatas to him. Beethoven’s
struggle to hear… At the age of twenty-eight, just before writing his first
symphony, Beethoven began to lose his hearing. He tried every available
treatment and, at first, there were periods when he could hear. But in the last
decade of his life he lost his hearing completely. Nevertheless, he continued
to lead rehearsals and play the piano as late as 1814. Possibly he “heard”
music by feeling its vibrations. As time passed, Beethoven became more and more
absorbed in his music. He began to ignore his grooming, pouring water over his
head instead of washing in a basin. On one of his beloved country walks, a
local policeman who assumed he was a tramp arrested Beethoven. His rooms were
piled high with manuscripts that nobody was allowed to touch. He had four
pianos without legs so that he could feel their vibrations. He often worked in
his underwear, or even naked, ignoring the friends that came to visit him if
they interrupted his composing. Watch out for that temper! The stories about
Beethoven’s temper became legend: he threw hot food at a waiter; he swept
candles off a piano during a bad performance; he may even have hit a choirboy.
His intensity spilled over into his family life. He became embroiled in a
bitter custody battle for a nephew who attempted suicide to escape the family
animosity. Perhaps he was terrified and furious about losing the world of
sound. Perhaps he was completely preoccupied by the need to create. Despite his
behaviour, he was admired and respected for the music that poured from him. He
knew that it moved his listeners to tears, but he responded, “Composers do not
cry. Composers are made of fire.” What about the women in Beethoven’s life?
With his talent and his larger-than-life personality, Beethoven was popular
among women. Although he never married, he dedicated such pieces as the
Moonlight Sonata and Fur Elise to the women in his life. Beethoven, Thunder and
Death In November 1826 Beethoven returned from his brother’s estate to Vienna
in an open wagon. By the time he got home he was ill with pneumonia, from which
he never fully recovered. Late in the afternoon of March 26, 1827, the sky
became dark. Suddenly a flash of lightning lighted Beethoven’s room. A great
clap of thunder followed. Beethoven opened his eyes, raised his fist, and fell
back dead. He was fifty-seven years old. Ludwig van Beethoven’s funeral was the
final demonstration of the esteem in which he was held. On March 29, 1827,
twenty thousand people lined the streets, while soldiers controlled the
grieving crowd. Nine priests blessed the composer’s body. He was buried in a
grave marked by a simple pyramid on which was written one word: “Beethoven.”
Today his remains lie beside those of the Austrian composer Franz Schubert, in
Vienna’s Central Cemetery. “I shall hear in Heaven” – Beethoven’s last words egistere Beethoven’s stay was cut short by a series of
family tragedies. He returned to Bonn to his dying mother. Shortly after, his
infant sister died. When his father lost his job, Beethoven had to take
responsibility for the family. After his father’s death in 1792, Beethoven
returned to Vienna for good. The serious boy had grown into a man who was by
turns rude and violent, kind and generous. He helped raise money for the only
surviving child of Johann Sebastian Bach, who was living in poverty, and he
donated new compositions for a benefit concert in aid of Ursula nuns. Despite
his temper, Beethoven attracted friends easily. He studied piano with composer
Franz Joseph Haydn. And even though the student-teacher relationship failed the
two remained friends. In Vienna, Beethoven also met Mozart’s rival, Antonio
Salieri – the man rumoured to have poisoned Mozart. Saltier was kind to
Beethoven and, in return, Beethoven dedicated three violin sonatas to him by h Beethoven’s struggle to hear… At the age of
twenty-eight, just before writing his first symphony, Beethoven began to lose
his hearing. He tried every available treatment and, at first, there were
periods when he could hear. But in the last decade of his life he lost his
hearing completely. Nevertheless, he continued to lead rehearsals and play the
piano as late as 1814. Possibly he “heard” music by feeling its vibrations. As
time passed, Beethoven became more and more absorbed in his music. He began to
ignore his grooming, pouring water over his head instead of washing in a basin.
On one of his beloved country walks, a local policeman who assumed he was a
tramp arrested Beethoven. His rooms were piled high with manuscripts that
nobody was allowed to touch. He had four pianos without legs so that he could
feel their vibrations. He often worked in his underwear, or even naked,
ignoring the friends that came to visit him if they interrupted his composing.
Watch out for that temper! The stories about Beethoven’s temper became legend:
he threw hot food at a waiter; he swept candles off a piano during a bad performance;
he may even have hit a choirboy. His intensity spilled over into his family
life. He became embroiled in a bitter custody battle for a nephew who attempted
suicide to escape the family animosity. Perhaps he was terrified and furious
about losing the world of sound. Perhaps he was completely preoccupied by the
need to create. Despite his behaviour, he was admired and respected for the
music that poured from him. He knew that it moved his listeners to tears, but
he responded, “Composers do not cry. Composers are made of fire.”
Here some other people disabilities and health problems you may be about look online for.
Them in
1876.
Unlike many
new inventions, the telephone was adopted quickly. Aft Francisco José de Goya
(1746–1828), one of the great Spanish masters, became deaf in 1792 as the
result of an illness. He continued to paint, but his work reflected his
sadness.
The great French Impressionist painter Claude
Monet (1840–1926) found his eyesight failing him late in his life.
He
continued to paint, studying his subjects so closely that the paintings
appeared fragmented like abstract art. Edgar Degas (1834–1917), another French
artist began to lose his eyesight when he was in his fifties. He began working
in sculpture and in pastels, choosing subjects that did not require careful
attention to detail.
One of the finest artists to come out of
Mexico was Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). She began painting in 1925 while recovering
from a streetcar accident. Many of her paintings reflect the physical pain she
suffered.ter only a year the very first telephone exchange had been constructed in Connecticut
and the Bell
Telephone Company was
founded. In consequence of the rapid spread of teloni Itzhak Perlman (1945–), the
wonderful Israeli violinist, became ill with polio at the age of four. As a
result of the disease, Perlman performs and conducts from a seated position.
Communications, Alexander Graham Bell soon
became a very wealthy man.
Bell was awarded a number
of prestigious prizes and went on
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