According to the Thomas Edison Inventions, he possessed 1,093 US patents ... In 1862, at the age of 15, Thomas saved three-year-old Jimmie MacKenzie from being hit by a runaway train.

According to historians at the Edison Innovation Foundation and the Thomas Edison Center, "His most important invention was one ... Now, 150 years later, those same principles apply to companies ...

An early sketch of a light bulb made by Thomas Edison on February 13, 1880. The year before, the inventor had demonstrated his long-lasting bulb before a crowd of hundreds at his Menlo Park ...

Thomas Alva Edison: Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life. By Francis Arthur Jones. Pp. xvi + 375; with 22 illustrations. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.) Price 6s. net.

In more recent years, though ... Kathleen Carlucci, director of the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park, says what made the inventor successful was that he wasn’t afraid to fail.

Tara Isabella Burton - Author, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities From da Vinci to the Kardashians Thomas Edison told journalists ... s most emblematic inventions. On New Year’s Eve in 1879 ...