THOMAS EDISON.

The article presents information on Thomas Alva Edison, a renowned scientist and inventor. Edison learned the value of innovation as a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railroad in Michigan during the Civil War. The telegraph, he saw, was the key to increasing his newspaper sales. He went on to earn 1,093 patents in a career that continued until his death in 1931. Many of the most important innovations of the 20th century are dependent upon Edison's ground-breaking work. Yet his style of invention, resting heavily on intuition and only loosely on academic study, has been eclipsed.