Thomas Edison

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1847 age 0

   Born

2. 1910 age 63

   CreditFrankensteinproducer

3. 1931 age 84

   Died

• JDJ. Searle Dawley1 title
• APAugustus Phillips1 title
• COCharles Stanton Ogle1 title
• MFMary Fuller1 title

• To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.

  Thomas Edison, CC BY-SA 4.0

• During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem. … I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament. . . . Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

  Thomas Edison, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

  Thomas Edison, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

  Thomas Edison, CC BY-SA 4.0

• X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

  Thomas Edison, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

  Thomas Edison, CC BY-SA 4.0