Thomas Edison Quote please HELP!?
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"Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2000 times to develop the carbonized cotton thread filiment for the incandescent light bulb.  When asked about it, he said, 'I didn't fail. I found out 2000 ways how not to make a light bulb.'  But he only needed to find one way to make it work."\n\nFrom National Treasure
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The traffic light\nGas masks (both by Garrett Morgan)\n\nLong haul refrigeration systems on trucks.\n\nThe ironing board.\n\nOpen heart surgery.\n\nStreet sweeper trucks.\n\nThe electronic resistor (for which help make electronics possible)\n\nThe filament in a lightbulb (for which was Edison's toughest feat)\n\nThe WC (restroom) on trains.\n\nModern music.\n\nThe super soaker.\n\nThe jenny coupler (it links railroad cars, a dangerous task for which is how it's black inventor Andrew Beard, lost his leg.)\n\nCarver invented peanut butter, adhesives, bleach, chili sauce, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, talcum powder and more.\n\nMatzeliger invented an automatic method for lasting shoes, which made the mass production of affordable shoes possible.\n\n\nDr. Charles Richard Drew invented the possibility of blood banks.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSo enjoy your affordable shoes, PB, music, anything electronic that you have, milk when you don't live near a dairy farm, your flat shirts, clean streets, incandescent lights, vacuum tubes... but don't say black people haven't done anything to make life more livable for you.
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Interesting. Where did you find the quote?
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Ben Franklin, electricity.  (You asked for discovery, not invention)
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Since you already have some real answers, I can't resist.\n\n"Turn off the light when you leave the room!"\n\n -- My dad
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Benjamin Franklin said it best:\n"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
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"Future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination"   ~anonymous\n\n"Happiness is nothing in particular; it is a continuous, creative activity"  ~anonymous
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Voltaire.  It's my favorite quote.
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,097 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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Edison : A Biography, by Matthew Josephson
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yes go to quotations.com
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Try this\n\nFarewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,\nAnd like enough thou know'st thy estimate:\nThe charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;\nMy bonds in thee are all determinate.\nFor how do I hold thee but by thy granting?\nAnd for that riches where is my deserving?\nThe cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,\nAnd so my patent back again is swerving.\nThyself thou gavest, thy own worth then not knowing,\nOr me, to whom thou gavest it, else mistaking;\nSo thy great gift, upon misprision growing,\nComes home again, on better judgment making.\nThus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter,\nIn sleep a king, but waking no such matter. \n\nWilliam Shakespeare Sonnet 87
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"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thomas Edison invented MANY things in his life:\n\n1. Incandescent lamp (aka the light bulb)\n2. Invented the microphone inside of telephones\n3. The locomotive train was a biggie.
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Lincoln put it best when he said, "Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth." Also the magnificent words of Thomas Jefferson. "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That amongst these are Life., Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  "  Hard to improve on the words of these two statesmen when speaking of America's values.
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the kiss by Thomas Edison, i think
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"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."\n\n\nThis is just one of Theodor Geisel's quotes!  We has many good ones, but this one is definately my favorite!\n\n\nI hope this helps!  = )