This time the inventor of the world Thomas Edison I will introduce you.
It is said that he made 1300 inventions, and 30 minutes a day sleep is a famous story.
It seems that he took a nap several times, but it took about 3 hours in total. Isn't it basic that successful people don't sleep?
Moreover, it has a long life of living up to 84 years old. It seems that he had diabetes ... Let's exercise.
Let's introduce Mr. Edison in an easy-to-understand manner.
Did Edison drop out of elementary school?
Childhood interests
1847 Born in Ohio, USA (upper right) as the youngest of seven siblings.
By the way, Japan has been in the Meiji era since 1868.
Edison, who was in elementary school, wanted to know something unusual.
"Why?" Was a habit and often bothered the teacher.
For example, during an addition class using clay, "Even if you add one clay and one clay, it's one big clay, right?" And "2" I was wondering about the answer.
"Why do things burn?" To find out, he burned straw at his home and burned down the barn.
He sat in the goose hut for hours to hatch the goose eggs on his own.
As a result of these things, he was abandoned by his father and teacher, and dropped out of elementary school in three months . I will do it.
After that, he will learn from his mother, who was his former teacher.
Edison "She wouldn't have been an inventor without her mother" He says.
First invention!
17 years old At that time, I was doing the boring work of a night telegrapher in Canada, "just send a telegraph every hour."
It was so boring that a machine that automatically sends telegraphs using a clock Invent. You made a machine that makes you feel comfortable.
The invention was great, but telegraphs arrived at the correct time and it was too unnatural . So, when his boss came to check, Edison fell asleep without work.
I got sick as it was. Smart people don't notice simple things.
And to the inventor!
21 years old At that time, Edison was "patented" Invented to acquire.
It's a time-saving machine that easily aggregates votes for and against Congress. was.
However, this invention is a minority time-earning tactic "I can't do cow-walking tactics" It was not put into practical use at all.
This is what Edison realizes that even a great invention is meaningless unless everyone is happy.
By the way, "Cow walking tactics" Is a tactic in which a minority of people walk slowly to the ballot box, literally like a cow, to gain time. If the voting time has passed, the vote will be invalid, and even if you leave the room in the bathroom etc., it will be invalid.
As a countermeasure, the number of politicians wearing diapers has increased. Are you smart? Isn't it smart?
Next year 22 years old "Stock market display" invented at the time Changes fate.
There was a request to sell the "patent right", and Edison wanted to sell it for $ 5,000.
But it sells for $ 40,000! Equivalent to the current 200 million yen. It is 200 million yen in the early 20s.
29 years old Around that time, he established the Menlo Park Lab in New Jersey (more to the right of Ohio).
Edison has more than 100 patented inventions.
Edison's famous invention
The reason why Edison is called the inventor is that people's lives change completely. It is because I left such an invention.
However, many of Edison's inventions are improved rather than starting from zero.
① Phonograph. It is a so-called recording / playback device.
The recording-only invention was made by another person 20 years ago, but with the addition of playback equipment and sound quality improvements, 30 years old I improved it at that time.
At the open house of the gramophone, a pastor "There are people!" I suspected that I recorded the Bible quickly. He saw a gramophone repeating at the same speed, "no one can speak like me" It is said that it was recognized as genuine.
➁ Light bulb. This was also invented by Mr. Swan and Mr. Edison is an improvement.
I used Kyoto bamboo for the filament (the part where the light bulb shines).
In Edison's episode, "I have failed 10,000 times, so why not stop?" "I haven't failed. I found that this method doesn't work even if I try 10,000 times." Was returned. I would like to say such a line.
③ Invention of the movie.
Edison first invented looking into each machine that plays a video of about 1 minute It was that.
Later, the Lumiere brothers invented the current screen movie.
And Edison also invented a projector for screens.
Edison, the Lumiere brothers are "father of the movie" Will be called.
Edison's two battles!
Phone battle!
Edison applies for a patent on the phone, but finds a deficiency "not accepted" It will be.
A month later, Graham Bell Has been patented "Father of the Phone" have become.
Two hours later Elijah Gray I came to apply for a phone, but I was a little late.
Gray then invented the facsimile "father of fax" It will be. There are many fathers.
Mr. Bell, the "father of the telephone," and Mr. Edison, who could not become the "father of the telephone," will then fight in the development of telephones and patent infringement proceedings. Successful people hate to lose.
Battle of direct current and alternating current!
I think the question is, "What is direct current and alternating current?" Let's study science together!
Nikola Terrace to Edison's subordinates Genius Scientist Was working.
Mr. Terrace was the strongest man who spoke eight languages, was good at music and philosophy, and could sleep four hours a day.
Edison also acknowledged the talent of the terrace, but the two people's ideas didn't fit at all.
Edison, who pushes DC, "Try to move this machine that can only work with DC with your AC! I'll do $ 50,000 if you can!" Is called.
However, Mr. Terrace, who pushed the exchange, did it without difficulty.
DC Edison is "American joke!" I decided that I didn't have $ 50,000.
From here, the DC Edison and the AC terrace will be crackling.
The two broke up and started their own companies, but the dispute continues.
DC Edison "AC is bad for your health" If you say that, the exchange terrace will read in the room where the exchange flows and wipe it out. It's like a quarrel between children in a watering controversy. Genius is innocent.
Edison in his later years
Mr. Edison was working on the development of an electric vehicle, but he is withdrawing that it cannot be realized with the technology of this era.
After that, a former employee of Edison's company Henry Ford "Car King" on a petrol car It will be. The two are lifelong friends.
Edison's later years are "occult research" I am absorbed in.
Believe in the afterlife and a device for communicating with the dead Was studying. Did he still have something he wanted to do and thought he wasn't enough?
"Because the human soul is energy and part of the cosmic energy, memory is also energy and that energy must exist even after death."
I'm talking to you. The average person no longer understands. I don't know the energy.
And 84 years old The inventor ended his life at.
Summary
Edison had more genius episodes than he had imagined.
Isn't it the power to create a "genius" by focusing on what you like and believing in your thoughts?
He also has a shy and fashionable side that he proposed by hitting Morse code on his palm.
Then there is another episode where concentration is difficult.
When his wife talks to Edison, who was thinking,
"Who are you?"
How can I become a genius?