Tell about Thomas Alva Edison ?

He would later establish a botanic laboratory in Fort Myers

, Florida in collaboration with businessmen Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone

laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey that featured the world's first film studio,.

the Black Maria. He was a prolific inventor, holding 1,093 US patents in his name,

as well as patents in other countries. Edison married twice and fathered six children

. He died in 1931 of complications of diabetes

Thomas Edison was born, in 1847, in Milan, Ohio,

and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan.

a device that Edison

others had studied but which Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent, in 1876. By the end of 1877 Edison had developed the carbon-button transmitter that is still used in telephone speakers and

He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr.

, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871,

born in Chenango County, New York).[7][8] His father, the son of a Loyalist refugee,

had moved as a boy with the family from Nova Scotia,

settling in southwestern Ontario (then called Upper Canada),

In his 84 years, Thomas Edison acquired a record number of 1,093 patents

was the driving force behind such innovations as the phonograph

in a village known as Shewsbury, later Vienna, by 1811. Samuel Jr. eventually fled Ontario,

the incandescent light bulb and one

because he took part in the unsuccessful Mackenzie Rebellion of 1837.

He also created the world’s first industrial

[9] His father, Samuel Sr., had earlier fought in the War of 1812

research laboratory

as captain of the First Middlesex Regiment. By contrast, Samuel Jr.'s struggle

where he did some of his best-known work,