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Inventor e empresário americano (1847–1931)
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Thomas Alva Edison foi um inventor e empresário americano conhecido por seu trabalho na lâmpada incandescente, no fonógrafo, na distribuição de energia elétrica e nos primeiros filmes. A fusão da Edison General Electric Company e da concorrente Thomson-Houston Electric Company resultou na formação da General Electric. Edison registrou 1.093 patentes nos Estados Unidos.
“To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.”
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
“We really haven't got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions? All we have — everything — favors the idea of what religionists call the "Hereafter." Science, if it ever learns the facts, probably will find another more definitely descriptive term.”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.”
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