Thomas Edison Quotes

“Indeed, the world owes a debt of gratitude to the unusual man and his exceptional talents.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Often criticized for being a re-inventor: someone who rode on the coattails of others, Edison had his own peculiar talent for seeing flaws and working obsessively to improve and refine concepts and designs to make them functional and to develop streamlined and inexpensive means of manufacture for the inventions that were most in demand.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Edison himself once said, “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven’t.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Thomas A. Edison had been part promoter, part inventor, and part businessman, but never much of a father.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“William’s relationship with his father was strained.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“When her father remarried after the death of her mother, Marion found herself often in conflict with Mina, who was also a very young woman and now her stepmother.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Edison once again demonstrated his ability to undermine an opponent, while maintaining his reputation and popularity.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Scientific American was one of the first respected publications to feature electricity as a means of bringing about intentional death.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“A curious aspect of Edison’s personality was that as much as he desired the financial rewards of success, he cared equally about beating out his competition, no matter the contest.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“For the recidivist or incorrigible criminal, the execution was perceived as a mercy, rather than a punishment.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Ford had admired Edison, and the new friendship was deeply satisfying to him. Edison was impressed with Ford’s work on a gas-powered car and knew it would be a success”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Miller also believed both public and church-lead education systems were flawed and needed reform.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“alternating current.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Born in 1856 in Croatia, Tesla was a talented engineer and physicist who impressed the scientific world with his invention of the electromagnetic induction motor.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Edison, never one to overlook an opportunity, was also a keen early-adopter of automobiles. He”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Eventually, film required better projector technology to be commercially successful, and Edison withdrew from the industry as other inventors made headway. The best known of these was Edwin S. Porter and his 1903 film The Great Train Robbery.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“They are most famous for their film Arrival of a Train which frightened first-time cinemagoers into thinking they were about to be run down.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Edison had a pragmatic streak that served him well.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“The success of this event made Edison a household name.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“However, this process of installing a dynamo for each separate building was costly. A centralized power station would solve the problem, so Edison tested the concept in the United Kingdom at the Holborn Viaduct in London.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“His vision combined his understanding of how gas was distributed at the time, and how telegraphs signals traveled.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“In Edison’s own words: "I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and appears to be true.  Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Like much of Edison’s work, he and his team excelled at modifying and improving existing inventions to meet market and manufacturing demands.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Thomas once said he’d last heard a bird sing at age 12.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“It is possible he did not want to draw attention to his deafness.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“There are a few pertinent speculations about how the relationship between Bell and Edison may have been impacted by their differing attitudes towards deafness. Bell believed developing a functional hearing aid was the best possible option for deaf patients (although he never developed one himself).”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Edison, on the other hand, was repelled by the thought of an invention to improve hearing.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Eventually, Berliner’s patent was deemed invalid in favor of Edison’s. Numerous hearings and dozens of lawsuits were launched in the years that followed. Western Union, Edison, Bell and other vital players wrangled with each other for years in the attempt to hold ownership of telephone technology, and eventually, Bell would become the world leader in telecommunications.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“Bell’s work, though impressive by any standard, was not without flaws.”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor

“My Wife Dearly Beloved Cannot invent worth a Damn!!”
― Captivating History, Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor