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You Know Tom!
He’s the guy you run into everywhere, every day. Pick up a phone and there’s Tom. Turn on a light and there’s Tom. Bang on a keyboard and there’s Tom. Unwrap your sandwich and there’s Tom. Do any job and there’s Tom - helping you do it better . . . faster. Great guy, Thomas Alva Edison. You never think of him, though there are many things he invented. Most of them no longer bear his name. That’s okay with Tom; he didn’t care for credit lines. Tom is still very much alive because he started something that will never stop. He started America tinkering, forever tinkering with little things. Forever dissatisfied, forever improving. And that’s what makes America great! There are lots of Toms. Lots of guys and gals who are always alert to little ways of doing their job better, faster. Lots of people who know that the way to make the world a better place is to work like Tom. How about you?
Thomas Alva Edison (tŏmꞋəs ălꞋvə/älꞋvä ĕdꞋĭ-sən) was born on 11 February 1847 in Milan, Ohio, United States of America. Although he was a school dropout, he is considered by many to have been the greatest inventor of all time, holding 1,093 United States patents. The ones that are perhaps best known are for a device for converting acoustic vibrations (sound) to fluctuating electrical signals that are transmitted through wires between telephones, called the carbon granule microphone (1877), a device for recording and playing back sound, called the phonograph (1878), and the first practical long lasting electric light, called the carbon filament incandescent lamp (1879). He was an entrepreneur and the founder of General Electric. Thomas Alva Edison passed on at 84 years of age on 18 October 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey, United States of America.
He’s the guy you run into everywhere, every day. Pick up a phone and there’s Tom. Turn on a light and there’s Tom. Bang on a keyboard and there’s Tom. Unwrap your sandwich and there’s Tom. Do any job and there’s Tom - helping you do it better . . . faster. Great guy, Thomas Alva Edison. You never think of him, though there are many things he invented. Most of them no longer bear his name. That’s okay with Tom; he didn’t care for credit lines. Tom is still very much alive because he started something that will never stop. He started America tinkering, forever tinkering with little things. Forever dissatisfied, forever improving. And that’s what makes America great! There are lots of Toms. Lots of guys and gals who are always alert to little ways of doing their job better, faster. Lots of people who know that the way to make the world a better place is to work like Tom. How about you?
Thomas Alva Edison (tŏmꞋəs ălꞋvə/älꞋvä ĕdꞋĭ-sən) was born on 11 February 1847 in Milan, Ohio, United States of America. Although he was a school dropout, he is considered by many to have been the greatest inventor of all time, holding 1,093 United States patents. The ones that are perhaps best known are for a device for converting acoustic vibrations (sound) to fluctuating electrical signals that are transmitted through wires between telephones, called the carbon granule microphone (1877), a device for recording and playing back sound, called the phonograph (1878), and the first practical long lasting electric light, called the carbon filament incandescent lamp (1879). He was an entrepreneur and the founder of General Electric. Thomas Alva Edison passed on at 84 years of age on 18 October 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey, United States of America.
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