People Who Changed the World in Business

Thomas Edison

He was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that influenced life around the world, like the phonograph, the motion picture camera, electric light bulb. He was the inventor to apply principles of mass production and a large teamwork to work on the process of invention and because of this he was credited with the creation of first industrial research laboratory. Edison is the most productive inventor holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name and also in United Kingdom, France and Germany. He invented a stock ticker a mechanical vote recorder, a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures. Edison’s first power station was on Manhattan Island, New York. There are many tributes given to Edison like Places on his name, museums and memorials on his name, companies on his name and awards and honors on his name etc.