Who Was Thomas Alva Edison 爱迪生 TIMELINE OF TOM’S LIFE

TIMELINE OF TOM’S LIFE

1847     —     Born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11

1854     —     The Edisons move to Port Huron, Michigan

1859     —     Works as a newsboy on the railroad

1863     —     Works as a telegraph operator in cities around the U.S.

1868     —     Moves to Boston, Massachusetts; invents an electric vote recorder and applies for his first patent

1869     —     Moves to New York City and develops a Universal Stock Printer

1870     —     Moves to Newark, New Jersey 1, to start a manufacturing and invention factory

1871     —     Marries Mary Stilwell on Christmas Day

1874     —     Develops quadruplex telegraph

1876     —     Moves to his new Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory to concentrate on inventing

1877     —     Develops carbon transmitter to improve the telephone; invents the phonograph

1879     —     Invents working electric lightbulb

1882     —     Brings electric light to a square mile of New York City from his Pearl Street power station

1884     —     Wife, Mary, dies

1886     —     Marries Mina Miller 2 and buys Glenmont in West Orange, N.J.

1887     —     Builds his West Orange laboratory

1888     —     Develops the kinetograph and kinetoscope for motion pictures

1900     —     Begins working on storage battery for electric cars

1927     —     Works on a natural rubber project for car tires

1928     —     Receives a special medal from the U.S. Congress

1931     —     Dies on October 18



TIMELINE OF THE WORLD

First “official” telegram sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland     —     1844

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published     —     1851

The Civil War     —     1861-65

President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated on April 14     —     1865

A cable to send telegrams (and later telephone calls) is laid on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between America and Europe     —     1866

The transcontinental railroad joins East and West Coasts     —     1869

Alexander Graham Bell invents the first working telephone     —     1876

The Brooklyn Bridge linking Manhattan and Brooklyn is completed     —     1883

The dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor     —     1886

Eiffel Tower is completed in Paris, France     —     1889

The Wright Brothers make their first successful flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina     —     1903

Admiral Peary is first to reach the North Pole on April 6     —     1909

The Titanic sinks on its first voyage between Great Britain and America on April 14     —     1912

World War I     —     1914-18

The Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote     —     1920

Adolf Hitler becomes the Nazi Party leader in Germany     —     1921

The stock market crashes on Wall Street in New York City and brings on the Great Depression     —     1929