United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)

when thomas edison filed his patent for the phonograph, his application was approved in just seven weeks.

他说：「当托马斯·爱迪生为他的留声机申请专利的时候，他的申请仅仅7个星期就获得了批準。

format wars have been around for decades: thomas edison favoured phonograph cylinders, but lost out to discs.

格式之战已经打了许多年代了。 托马斯·爱迪生喜欢留声机唱针，但却输给了碟片。

so-called polyphasic sleep is seen in babies, the elderly and other animals (and thomas edison reportedly slept this way).

因此，所谓的多相睡眠被认为仅仅存在于婴儿、老年人和其他一些动物中（据报道托马斯爱迪生也是这样睡的）。

back in 1922, thomas edison predicted that "the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and……in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

1922年的时候，托马斯·爱迪生曾经预测说“电影必将革新我们的教育制度，…要不了几年，它就能取代大部分（即便不是全部的）教科书。」

behind one hides a standard incandescent bulb, the familiar lighting technology that has gone largely unchanged since thomas edison invented it 132 years ago.

其中一个后面藏着一个标準白炽灯泡——这项人尽皆知的托马斯·爱迪生在132年前就发明的，至今仍无什么大变化的照明技术。

but more important is the rise of systems innovation, like thomas edison and george westinghouse building electrical systems.

然而，更重要的是系统创新的兴起，就像托马斯·爱迪生（thomas edison）和乔治·西屋（georgewestinghouse）建造电气系统。

amazing success lessons from thomas edison

来自托马斯.爱迪生的7个令人惊叹的成功经验

there is also evidence that in 1888 he shared with thomas edison some thoughts on combining a new projection system he had invented—the zoopraxiscope—with edison’s phonograph.

有证据表明，1888年迈布里奇与托马斯·爱迪生讨论过将爱迪生的留声机技术与他发明的新的投影系统--动物实验镜--结合起来。

the eponymous shape of the product thomas edison invented in 1879 was no accident.

托马斯·爱迪生1879年发明的灯泡外形并不是巧合。

image: thomas edison received a patent for his light bulb in january 1880.

图片：:january 1880年一月，托马斯·爱迪生获得了一项他的灯泡的专利.

if thomas edison was reincarnated, he would be surprised to learn that the battery and light bulb hadn't really advanced all that much since his time.

如果托马斯·爱迪生复活，肯定会为电池和电灯泡没有出现太大改进而感到意外。

october 28, 1868, thomas edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1868年的10月28日，托马斯·爱迪生申请他的第一个发明专利——电子投票记录器。

thomas edison was not the sole inventor of the incandescent light bulb— nor was he the first.

托马斯·爱迪生并非白炽灯的唯一发明者，也不是首个发明者。

winston churchill and thomas edison came close but they were also fond of taking naps, which may disqualify them as true short sleepers.

温斯顿·丘吉尔和托马斯·爱迪生比较接近，但是他们也喜欢午睡，这也许会剥夺其成为真正短睡者的资格。

mr. jordan argues that as manufacturing’s presence — and status — shrinks in america, the odds of a henry ford or a thomas edison or a steve jobs appearing in the next generation are reduced.

乔丹先生认为，随着制造业的出现及状态在美国的收缩，亨利·福特或者汤姆斯·爱迪生或者斯蒂芬·乔布斯在将来几代中出现的几率被缩小了。

by the turn of the 20th century, thomas edison had merged with the thomson-houston electric company to create ge.

到了20世纪初，托马斯·爱迪生已与汤姆森-休斯敦电力公司联合创建通用公司。