AWA_100-Useful 100 examples for composition : 3. Thomas Edison

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incandescent a. 白熾的 耀眼的 incandescent light bulb 舊型燈泡

1. Only had few months formal education, but ended up a prolific
inventor and held 1903 patents.
2. Inventions : phonograph, motion capture camera, electrical light
bulb , electric power generator.
3. telegrapher -> Edison Electric Light Company 自己創業
( entrepreneurship )

Quotes
教育 & 社會
強調努力的重要性
1. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my
inventions come by accident; they came by work.
2. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up.
3. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is
another step forward.
4. The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your
physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without
growing
weary.
5. Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent
perspiration. (最有名的一句)
來源：
1. http://www.wow4u.com/thomas-edison/index.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison