Thomas Alva Edison (11 February, 1847–18 October, 1931) an American school dropout, was a genius and a businessman by profession. His list of inventions includes the Phonograph, the first commercial incandescent light, carbon microphone and the light bulb. He found his own company, called as the Edison Electric Light Company.
He started off as a telegraph operator and learnt the basic of electricity during his tenure before he left his job and started experimenting and working on night shifts. The electric vote recorder was his first United States patent. From then onwards, he used Intellectual property rights and did mass production of his inventions to make high profits in business. He built a kinetoscope, designed two-way telegraph and patented a system of electricity distribution to get the most out of his major invention of a lamp. His motto was to make electricity highly affordable as candle would be used only by the rich, which is found true even after 100 years of the invention of a bulb. He is the only scientist to have made more than a thousand inventions during his entire career.
