LIKE most adults, he held several jobs throughout his career. But unlike most people, he went on to create over 1 000 interesting things. Here’s all about this prolific inventor.
1878
That’s the year Thomas Edison started working on designing the lightbulb. He had success late in 1879 when he produced a working lightbulb, which he patented (registered as his invention) in 1880. We still rely on the humble lightbulb today, which first brought electric light to homes a century and a half ago.
PATENTS
Though Edison never attended a formal school, he became an inventor with hundreds of patents in his name – . He bought many.
