托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生（1847年2月11日—1931年10月18日），出生于美国俄亥俄州米兰镇，美国发明家、企业家。
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931), was born in Milan, Ohio, USA, an American inventor and entrepreneur.
爱迪生是人类历史上第一个利用大量生产原则和电气工程研究的实验室来进行从事发明专利而对世界产生重大深远影响的人。
Edison is the first person in human history to use the principles of mass production and electrical engineering research to make invention patents that have a profound and far-reaching impact on the world.
他发明的留声机、电影摄影机、电灯对世界有极大影响。他一生的发明共有两千多项，拥有专利一千多项。爱迪生被美国的权威期刊《大西洋月刊》评为影响美国的100位人物第9名。
The phonograph, movie camera, and electric light he invented have had a great impact on the world. He has invented more than 2,000 inventions in his lifetime and has more than 1,000 patents. Edison was ranked 9th in the 100 characters affecting the United States by the American journal Atlantic Monthly .
1931年10月18日，托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生在美国新泽西州西奥兰治逝世。
On October 18, 1931, Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, New Jersey, USA.
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爱迪生的主要发明：
1、1877年在门罗公园改进了早期由贝尔发明的电话，并使之投入了实际使用。获得三项专利：穿孔笔、气动铁笔和普通铁笔。
2、1887年8 月 20 日发明留声机。
3、1878年爱迪生宣称要解决电照明的问题。英国皇家学会举办留声机展览。改良留声机。设计微音器， 扩音器，空中扬声器， 声音发动机， 调音发动机， 微热计，验味计等。
4、1878年7 月与宾夕法尼亚大学派克教授赴怀俄明观察日全蚀， 并用他发明的气温计测量太阳周围全体的温度 。
5、1878年10 月 5 日提出等一份关於铂丝「电灯」的专利申请。
6、1878年11 月碳阻送话器被送到英国进行试验。
7、1879—1880 经数千次的挫折发明高阻力白炽灯。 改良发电机。 设计电流新分布法，电路的调准和计算法。发明电灯座和开关。发明磁力析矿法。
8、1879年10 月 21 日发明高阻力白炽灯，它连续点燃了 40 个小时。
9、1880 研究直升机。获得电灯发明专利权。制成磁力筛矿器。
The Edison Effect大发明家──爱迪生
There are many people who say Thomas Edison single-handedly invented the twentieth century.
Although there are those who may disagree, one thing cannot be denied: Edison was a genius, and his inventions greatly affected the development of modern society.
有许多人认为是爱迪生一手创造了二十世纪。虽然有不少人可能有不同的看法，但有一件事是无法否认的，爱迪生是个天才，以及他的发明深刻地影响了现代社会的发展。
Born in 1847 in Ohio, Thomas Edison attended school for only three months. After his teacher claimed that he could not learn, Edison's mother decided to teach him at home. There he was allowed to explore the subjects that most interested him. By age ten。
Edison had built a science laboratory in the basement of his family's home and had become an avid experimenter.
1847年爱迪生出生于俄亥俄州。他仅仅只上了三个月的学。在爱迪生的老师声称他有学习障碍之后，他的母亲决定在家教他。在家里，爱迪生可以随心所欲地探索最使他感兴趣的事物。十岁那年，爱迪生在家里的地下室建了一间科学实验室。从此，爱迪生就成了一位孜孜不倦的实验者。
Edison got his first job at age twelve on the railway selling candy and newspapers. Three years later, he suffered an ear injury from a train accident and lost much of his hearing 。 He could have had an operation, but he refused. He insisted that being deaf helped him concentrate on his experiments.
十二岁时，爱迪生找到了他的第一份工作──在火车上卖糖果和报纸。三年后，一场火车事故导致他耳朵受伤，几乎完全失聪。他本可以接受手术治疗，但他拒绝了，因为他坚信听觉的丧失可以让他更专心地做实验。
Thomas Edison's first invention was the automatic telegraph repeater. He was already an expert on the telegraph before he came up with a gadget that sent telegraph signals between unmanned stations. Thanks to Edison, people were then able to send several telegraph messages simultaneously .
电报自动转发器是托马斯·爱迪生的第一个发明。他发明的这种装置，用于在无人看管的两站之间传输电报信号，在此项发明前，爱迪生就已经是位电报专家了。幸亏有爱迪生，我们才能在同一时间传送好几封电报讯息。
Next came the electric vote recorder. It made voting quicker and more accurate, yet no one wanted to buy it.
Edison then moved on to tackle the stock market ticker, the machine that gave information about stock market prices. Edison improved it, and sold the rights for US$40,000.
接下来的电子记票器让统计票数的速度更快、更准确，但却没有人要买。之后，爱迪生转而进行股票行情收录器的研究，他把收录器作了改进并将该项专利以四万美元卖出。
In his late twenties, Edison built an "invention factory" where he and his business partners could dedicate all their time to inventing.
After improving upon the telephone, Edison created the phonograph,
his favorite and most lucrative invention. Although Edison did not actually invent the light bulb, he did create an electric lighting system which led to its widespread use.
近三十岁时，爱迪生盖了一座“发明工厂”，可让他和他的同事专心致力于发明工作。在改进了电话功能后，爱迪生又发明了留声机，这是他喜爱的而且最能赚钱的一项发明。虽然爱迪生实际上并没有发明灯泡，但他的确发明了电灯照明系统，这导致了灯泡的广泛使用。
A tireless achiever, Edison established the first central electric power station in 1882, enabling New York to be the first city in the world to have electric lights. This was the beginning of the modern world in which electricity became a way of life.
1882年，这位孜孜不倦的实践家建成了第一座中央电站，使纽约市成为世界上第一个有电力照明设备的城市，这就是现代世界的开始，电成为人们的一种生活方式。
The following year, one of Edison's engineers discovered electrons, which eventually led to electronics, the branch of science dealing with electricity.
This discovery was patented as the "Edison effect". Without electronics, we might not have radio, TV, computers, or space travel.
The rest of Edison's life was spent making and improving inventions including the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, the copy machine, and the microphone.
第二年，爱迪生手下的一名工程师发现了电子，最后导致电子学的产生。这个发现以“爱迪生效应”获得发明专利。假若没有电子学，我们可能就没有收音机、电视机、电脑，甚至太空旅行。在最后的岁月里，爱迪生继续创造并改进那些发明，其中包括电影摄像机、碱性电池、复印机，以及麦克风。
Thomas Edison died at the age of eighty-four in 1931.
Three days later, much of America dimmed its lights in honor of the inventor— man who had more impact on the development of present-day civilization than anyone else in history.
爱迪生1931年去世，享年84岁。在他死后三天，美国大部分地区使灯暗下来来纪念这位在历史上对现代文明发展最具影响力的发明家。
扩展资料：
托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生轶事典故
天真好奇孵小鸡
有一次，到了吃饭的时候，仍不见爱迪生回来，父母很焦急并四下寻找，直到傍晚才在场院边的草棚里发现了他。
父亲见他一动不动地趴在放了好些鸡蛋的草堆里，问爱迪生在干什么，小爱迪生回答说在孵小鸡呀，原来，他看到母鸡会孵小鸡，觉得很奇怪，总想自己也试一试。当时，父亲又气又笑地将他拉起来，告诉他人是孵不出小鸡来的。在回家的路上，他还迷惑不解地问：“为什么母鸡能孵小鸡，我就不能呢？”
初尝试验
在爱迪生小的时候，他经常到邻居缪尔·温切斯特的家的碾坊玩。一天，他在温切斯特家的碾坊看见温切斯特正在用一个气球做一种飞行装置试验，这个试验使爱迪生入了迷，他想，要是人的肚子里充满了气，一定会升上天。
几天后，爱迪生把几种化学原料配在一起，拿给父亲的帮工迈克尔·奥茨吃，爱迪生告诉迈克尔·奥茨吃了这种东西人就会飞起来，结果奥茨吃了爱迪生配制的“飞行剂”后几乎昏厥过去。爱迪生因此受到了父亲的鞭打和小朋友父母们的警惕，劝告自己的孩子不要与爱迪生玩并远离他。
临终遗言
当爱迪生弥留之际，医生和爱迪生的许多亲友都围坐在他的床前，眼看他的呼吸已越来越微弱，心脏终于停止了跳动。可就在医生要宣布他死亡之际，他却突然又坐了起来，说了一句很奇怪的话：“真是想不到，那边竟是如此的美丽。”讲完这句话之后，他便与世长辞。
参考资料：百度百科-爱迪生
本回答被网友采纳There are many people who say Thomas Edison single-handedly invented the twentieth century.
Although there are those who may disagree, one thing cannot be denied: Edison was a genius, and his inventions greatly affected the development of modern society.
有许多人认为是爱迪生一手创造了二十世纪。虽然有不少人可能有不同的看法，但有一件事是无法否认的，爱迪生是个天才，以及他的发明深刻地影响了现代社会的发展。
Born in 1847 in Ohio, Thomas Edison attended school for only three months. After his teacher claimed that he could not learn, Edison's mother decided to teach him at home. There he was allowed to explore the subjects that most interested him. By age ten。
Edison had built a science laboratory in the basement of his family's home and had become an avid experimenter.
1847年爱迪生出生于俄亥俄州。他仅仅只上了三个月的学。在爱迪生的老师声称他有学习障碍之后，他的母亲决定在家教他。在家里，爱迪生可以随心所欲地探索最使他感兴趣的事物。十岁那年，爱迪生在家里的地下室建了一间科学实验室。从此，爱迪生就成了一位孜孜不倦的实验者。
Edison got his first job at age twelve on the railway selling candy and newspapers. Three years later, he suffered an ear injury from a train accident and lost much of his hearing 。 He could have had an operation, but he refused. He insisted that being deaf helped him concentrate on his experiments.
十二岁时，爱迪生找到了他的第一份工作──在火车上卖糖果和报纸。三年后，一场火车事故导致他耳朵受伤，几乎完全失聪。他本可以接受手术治疗，但他拒绝了，因为他坚信听觉的丧失可以让他更专心地做实验。
Thomas Edison's first invention was the automatic telegraph repeater. He was already an expert on the telegraph before he came up with a gadget that sent telegraph signals between unmanned stations. Thanks to Edison, people were then able to send several telegraph messages simultaneously .
电报自动转发器是托马斯·爱迪生的第一个发明。他发明的这种装置，用于在无人看管的两站之间传输电报信号，在此项发明前，爱迪生就已经是位电报专家了。幸亏有爱迪生，我们才能在同一时间传送好几封电报讯息。
Next came the electric vote recorder. It made voting quicker and more accurate, yet no one wanted to buy it.
Edison then moved on to tackle the stock market ticker, the machine that gave information about stock market prices. Edison improved it, and sold the rights for US$40,000.
接下来的电子记票器让统计票数的速度更快、更准确，但却没有人要买。之后，爱迪生转而进行股票行情收录器的研究，他把收录器作了改进并将该项专利以四万美元卖出。
In his late twenties, Edison built an "invention factory" where he and his business partners could dedicate all their time to inventing.
After improving upon the telephone, Edison created the phonograph,
his favorite and most lucrative invention. Although Edison did not actually invent the light bulb, he did create an electric lighting system which led to its widespread use.
近三十岁时，爱迪生盖了一座“发明工厂”，可让他和他的同事专心致力于发明工作。在改进了电话功能后，爱迪生又发明了留声机，这是他喜爱的而且最能赚钱的一项发明。虽然爱迪生实际上并没有发明灯泡，但他的确发明了电灯照明系统，这导致了灯泡的广泛使用。
A tireless achiever, Edison established the first central electric power station in 1882, enabling New York to be the first city in the world to have electric lights. This was the beginning of the modern world in which electricity became a way of life.
1882年，这位孜孜不倦的实践家建成了第一座中央电站，使纽约市成为世界上第一个有电力照明设备的城市，这就是现代世界的开始，电成为人们的一种生活方式。
The following year, one of Edison's engineers discovered electrons, which eventually led to electronics, the branch of science dealing with electricity.
This discovery was patented as the "Edison effect". Without electronics, we might not have radio, TV, computers, or space travel.
The rest of Edison's life was spent making and improving inventions including the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, the copy machine, and the microphone.
第二年，爱迪生手下的一名工程师发现了电子，最后导致电子学的产生。这个发现以“爱迪生效应”获得发明专利。假若没有电子学，我们可能就没有收音机、电视机、电脑，甚至太空旅行。在最后的岁月里，爱迪生继续创造并改进那些发明，其中包括电影摄像机、碱性电池、复印机，以及麦克风。
Thomas Edison died at the age of eighty-four in 1931.
Three days later, much of America dimmed its lights in honor of the inventor— man who had more impact on the development of present-day civilization than anyone else in history.
爱迪生1931年去世，享年84岁。在他死后三天，美国大部分地区使灯暗下来来纪念这位在历史上对现代文明发展最具影响力的发明家。
扩展资料：
托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生轶事典故
天真好奇孵小鸡
有一次，到了吃饭的时候，仍不见爱迪生回来，父母很焦急并四下寻找，直到傍晚才在场院边的草棚里发现了他。
父亲见他一动不动地趴在放了好些鸡蛋的草堆里，问爱迪生在干什么，小爱迪生回答说在孵小鸡呀，原来，他看到母鸡会孵小鸡，觉得很奇怪，总想自己也试一试。当时，父亲又气又笑地将他拉起来，告诉他人是孵不出小鸡来的。在回家的路上，他还迷惑不解地问：“为什么母鸡能孵小鸡，我就不能呢？”
初尝试验
在爱迪生小的时候，他经常到邻居缪尔·温切斯特的家的碾坊玩。一天，他在温切斯特家的碾坊看见温切斯特正在用一个气球做一种飞行装置试验，这个试验使爱迪生入了迷，他想，要是人的肚子里充满了气，一定会升上天。
几天后，爱迪生把几种化学原料配在一起，拿给父亲的帮工迈克尔·奥茨吃，爱迪生告诉迈克尔·奥茨吃了这种东西人就会飞起来，结果奥茨吃了爱迪生配制的“飞行剂”后几乎昏厥过去。爱迪生因此受到了父亲的鞭打和小朋友父母们的警惕，劝告自己的孩子不要与爱迪生玩并远离他。
临终遗言
当爱迪生弥留之际，医生和爱迪生的许多亲友都围坐在他的床前，眼看他的呼吸已越来越微弱，心脏终于停止了跳动。可就在医生要宣布他死亡之际，他却突然又坐了起来，说了一句很奇怪的话：“真是想不到，那边竟是如此的美丽。”讲完这句话之后，他便与世长辞。
Thomas Edison was a famous American scientist. He was born in 1847. When he was a child, he liked to find out how things worked. He was in school for only three months. He asked his teacher a lot of strange questions. Most of them had nothing to do with his lessons. The teacher thought the boy was not bright and was not worth teaching. When he told this to Edison�s mother,she took her son out of school. As she had been a teacher,she taught him herself. The boy read a lot. Soon he became very interested in science. At the age of ten, Edison had already built a chemistry lab for himself. Ever since then, he never stopped searching for new and better ways to do things.
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 and died on October 18, 1931. He was an inventor and businessman who developed many important devices.
"The Wizard of Menlo Park" was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention.
In 1880 Edison founded the journal Science, which in 1900 became the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors, holding a record 1,093 patents in his name.
Most of these inventions were not completely original but improvements of earlier patents, and were actually works of his numerous employees.
Edison was frequently criticized for not sharing the credit.
Nevertheless, Edison received patents worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Edison started the Motion Picture Patents Company, which was a conglomerate of nine major film studios.本回答被网友采纳