Stories about scientists’ inventions

Edison only attended elementary school for three months in his life. His knowledge was obtained through his mother's teaching and self-study. His success should be attributed to his mother's understanding and patient teachings from an early age. Edison, who was originally considered an imbecile, became a world-famous "invention king" when he grew up.

Edison has been curious about many things since he was a child, and he likes to experiment until he understands the truth. When he grew up, he devoted himself to research and invention based on his interests in this area. He established a laboratory in New Jersey and invented more than two thousand things in his lifetime, including the electric light, the telegraph, the phonograph, the movie player, the magnetic separator, the crusher, and so on. Edison's strong research spirit enabled him to make significant contributions to improving human life style.

"Waste, the greatest waste is time." Edison often said to his assistant. "Life is too short, you have to think of more ways to do more things with less time."

One day, Edison was working in the laboratory, and he handed his assistant an empty lamp without a lamp. Glass bulb, said: "You measure the capacity of the bulb." He lowered his head to work again.

After a long time, he asked: "What's the capacity?" He didn't hear the answer. He turned around and saw the assistant holding a soft ruler to measure the circumference and slope of the light bulb, and took the measured number. He leaned over the table and calculated. He said: "Time, time, why does it take so much time?" Edison came over, picked up the empty light bulb, filled it with water, handed it to the assistant, and said: "Pour the water inside into the measuring cup, immediately Tell me its capacity."

The assistant immediately read the number.

Edison said: "This is such an easy measurement method. It is accurate and saves time. How could you not think of it? If you still calculate it, wouldn't it be a waste of time?"

The assistant blushed.

Edison murmured: "Life is too short, too short. Save time and do more things!"

Edison was a poor worker before he became famous. Once, his old friend met him on the street and said with concern: "The coat you are wearing is worn out. You should get a new one."

"It will come in handy." No one knows me in New York?" Edison replied nonchalantly.

A few years later, Edison became a great inventor.

One day, Edison met that friend again on the streets of New York. "Oh," the friend exclaimed, "Why are you still wearing this shabby coat? This time, you have to get a new one anyway!"

"Is it useful?" Everyone here already knows me." Edison still replied nonchalantly.

Edison’s Story: Making the Sun

One snowy night, Edison’s mother suddenly fell ill, and his father hurriedly called for a doctor. The doctor said: "Your mother has acute appendicitis and needs surgery." At that time, there were only oil lamps and no electric lamps. The light of the oil lamp was very dim, so you could perform the wrong surgery accidentally. Edison suddenly thought of a good idea. He took out all the oil lamps in the house and put a mirror behind the oil lamps, so that the doctor could complete the operation smoothly. The doctor said: "My child, you saved your mother with your wisdom and cleverness." Edison took his mother's hand and said: "Mom, I want to make a sun at night."

The story of Edison as a child :

When Edison was a child, he once saw a hen hatching eggs and giving birth to chicks. He felt amazing, but he was not satisfied. Afterwards, he secretly saved some eggs and put them in the warehouse. He lay on them to see if he could produce chicks, which made the whole family unable to find him for a while.

After going to school at the age of seven, his strong thirst for knowledge and habit of delving into problems became more obvious. He always asked endless questions of one kind or another about the things he came into contact with, and asked the teacher to answer them clearly. The teacher felt very troubled by this. Once in an arithmetic class, the teacher taught the students that two plus two equals four. Edison must ask the teacher to explain why two plus two equals four. Although the teacher gave him a general explanation, it did not satisfy his requirements.

So the teacher called him "stupid". Edison was not satisfied with the knowledge he had learned, but was always exploring the secrets of nature with his innocent and childish mind. However, his teacher failed to understand him. But decades later, Edison became a famous inventor.

Edison’s Story: Never Satisfied

We know that Edison made more than a thousand inventions and creations throughout his life, some of which have been amazingly successful. He is also famous himself. However, he never indulged in his inventions. He was always climbing to new areas of science. At the same time, he was always negative about his inventions and made improvements without stopping. He himself said: "I will never be satisfied." Endless study and non-stop improvement are another outstanding feature of Edison. After the battery he invented was successful, he set up a battery factory and mass-produced it, and the sales have been very good. But after a period of time, he found that there was something wrong with the battery, and he couldn't find the cause for a while, so he decided to improve the battery. However, improvement requires time and energy, and the factory will also have to close down. This may not only reduce the prestige of his invention of the battery, but also cause great economic losses. However, he decisively ordered the factory to close its doors immediately. Many people who were satisfied with his batteries asked for more orders, but he refused. He was not afraid of anyone who put financial pressure on him. As a result, the battery he carefully improved was more successful than expected and quickly sold well all over the country. This spirit of his was in sharp contrast to the merchants at that time who "gold and jade were on the outside, but they were ruined on the inside" and covered up inferior goods. You can't help but win people's respect and praise.

Among his inventions, the one that shocked society at that time was the phonograph. This is also his proud invention. He was deaf, so it was astonishing that he could invent such a sound-producing machine. However, Edison changed it again and again when he invented it. Ten years later, he took the phonograph down from the dust on the shelf again, determined to improve it. He actually worked continuously for five days and five nights before he achieved success. There are also figures like this that can completely prove his research spirit: he has more than one hundred invention patents on the phonograph alone. When we look at today's gramophone, don't forget that it is filled with the blood and sweat of Edison's countless hard work. It would be extremely difficult to achieve without an endless spirit of study.

Edison’s Story: Eating Rabbit

One day, Edison received a visitor who asked Edison to introduce the "secret" of tireless work. Edison thought it was funny, because there was no secret to his tireless work, so he made a joke and told the visitor: "It might be OK to eat a rabbit every morning." The man believed it, got up and left, and went back This was indeed the case. However, six weeks later, the man was so tired that he became seriously ill and could not get out of bed.

He does not pay attention to grooming and often wears shabby clothes stained by chemicals. This habit becomes even worse in his old age. Most people thought he was a cook, and newspapers often published satirical articles about him. This just proves that he devoted all his efforts and energy to scientific research. When he was studying the automatic telegraph machine in 1872, he was fascinated by the experiment and his thoughts were highly concentrated. One time he needed to go outside to handle an urgent matter. But when someone asked him his name, he couldn't remember it for a while.

Edison walked steadily and diligently on the road of scientific research, and indeed spent a lot of physical and mental effort.

On his seventy-seventh birthday, someone asked him what his philosophy of life was. He replied; "Work! Uncover the secrets of nature and make it serve the eyes of mankind." This was the real motivation for his scientific research, but it was not the "secret."