Thomas Alva Edison
Wanthanee Yang
Junior Division
Individual Website
My topic for National History Day Is Thomas Alva Edison, I chose Edison for my National History Day Project because he made a great impact on the world with his inventions. I found out many interesting things about my topic that I didn’t even know about, for example, Thomas Edison building many other things not just the light bulb. I really just find the point that he was helping in the army to build and experiment surprised me the most.
I found a resource from a website very useful because it gave me facts about Thomas Edison that I didn’t know about. During my process I first went and found out what he did that changed the world then I found out some of his life facts and stories. The sources that were very helpful when searching was a site that gave me links to other sites about Edison, it was really reliable because most of my sources I got was from using it.
I purposely chose to make a website for my topic because I had a lot of information. The advantages are that i can add as many words as I need because there is no word limit, a website was the best choice because of my word limit, I can’t write with the exact word limit because I sometimes intend to just go over the word limit.
Thomas Alva Edison, relates with the theme, “ Leadership and Legacy,” because he left a legacy of brightness and his encouraging self. He, himself was a leader in business and the invention of new things which impacted the world in a different and brightening way.
Wanthanee Yang
Junior Division
Individual Website
My topic for National History Day Is Thomas Alva Edison, I chose Edison for my National History Day Project because he made a great impact on the world with his inventions. I found out many interesting things about my topic that I didn’t even know about, for example, Thomas Edison building many other things not just the light bulb. I really just find the point that he was helping in the army to build and experiment surprised me the most.
I found a resource from a website very useful because it gave me facts about Thomas Edison that I didn’t know about. During my process I first went and found out what he did that changed the world then I found out some of his life facts and stories. The sources that were very helpful when searching was a site that gave me links to other sites about Edison, it was really reliable because most of my sources I got was from using it.
I purposely chose to make a website for my topic because I had a lot of information. The advantages are that i can add as many words as I need because there is no word limit, a website was the best choice because of my word limit, I can’t write with the exact word limit because I sometimes intend to just go over the word limit.
Thomas Alva Edison, relates with the theme, “ Leadership and Legacy,” because he left a legacy of brightness and his encouraging self. He, himself was a leader in business and the invention of new things which impacted the world in a different and brightening way.
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- http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3091287.Thomas_A_Edison "Thomas A. Edison Quotes (Author of Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison)." Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. I recorded quotes from this site and a recorded interview of Thomas Edison and what he said during the interview of a newspaper magazine during the time.
- Kurnit,Scott. “Biography of Thomas Edison.” http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventors/a/Edison_Bio.htm, 2012.Web. 13 September 2012, "Biography of Thomas Edison." About.com Inventors. About.com, n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. From this website I learned about Thomas Edison’s childhood and what he did during that time of his life, I also learned about his life while he made his inventions and while he moved to Menlo Park and came to be called Wizard of Menlo Park.
- http://www.raabcollection.com/thomas-edison-autograph/thomas-edison-empathizes-courageous-disabled-person Thomas Edison Autograph - Typed Letter Signed - Historical Document and Autograph Dealer The Raab Collection. (n.d.), "Thomas Edison Autograph - Typed Letter Signed - Historical Document and Autograph Dealer The Raab Collection." The Raab Collection. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site has showed a document of Edison’s message letter to a disabled person who was curious about him and his inventions which showed that Edison was very caring and Edison even offered him a visit to Edison’s lab.
- http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/collections/collections/library/manuscripts/edison/parents.html Letter from Edison to his parents, 1870, The Henry Ford. (n.d.) From this site I recorded what Edison wrote to his parents. And it helped me analyze that during that time while he was writing, his mom was sick and that was th ereason why he stopped half of his inventions to say some things to his mom then started working on his inventions again.
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- https://archive.org/stream/thomasalvaediso00roltgoog#page/n22/mode/2up "Thomas Alva Edison." N.p., Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site big book like slide which had a lot of typed down information of the story of Thomas Edison’s life gave me useful information to read on Thomas Edison.
- www.biography.com/people/thomas-edison-9284349 N.p., Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site gave me a little information about Thomas Edison and his inventions during the time he was still living.
- http://www.businessinsurance.org/business-leaders-thomas-edison/ "Business Leaders: Thomas Edison." Business Insurance Quotes: Compare Providers for Free. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site helped me know more about his early life, his inventions, and the later years of his life. It also gives me other resources that could be helpful to learn more about Thomas Edison.
- www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-on-thomas-edison.html "Facts about Thomas Edison." Buzzle. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site gave me information about his deafness, his jobs while his childhood and when he grew up, and his work of art.
- Buzzle. “Timeline of Thomas Edison and his Inventions.” http://www.buzzle.com/articles/timeline-of-thomas-edison-inventions.html, 2000-2011, 2012. Web. 24 October 2012, Timeline of Thomas Edison's Inventions. (n.d.).This website helped me list down some of his inventions and how he improved some of his inventions.Israel, Paul. “Thomas Alva Edison Biography.”
- http://edison.rutgers.edu/links.htm Links - The Edison Papers. (n.d.), "Links - The Edison Papers." The Thomas A. Edison Papers. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site gave me links to some information about him and museums where he is stated in or has some information of him in there.
- http://edison.rutgers.edu/biogrphy.htm, 2-20-12. Web. 22 September 2012, Thomas Alva Edison Biography - The Edison Papers. (n.d.). From this site I learned about his early life and his career during his child time and also I learned about his work in Menlo Park.
- www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/on - this - day Web Resources. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site gave me information on his first phonograph works and Thomas’s Talking Machine.
- http://www.fusd.net/historyday/2001/Edison/8edison.htm "Annotated Bibliography." Fontana Unified School District. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. Thomas Alva Edison. (n.d.) This site of his invention of the motion picture and the timeline of his motion picture gave extra information his invention times.
- http://invention.smithosnian.org/centerpieces/edison/000-story_02.asp This site gave me information on his childhood, inventions, and most of his failures.
- www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/edison/studentproc.html "Students - Procedure - Thomas Edison, Electricity, and America - Lesson Plan | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress." Library of Congress Home | Library of Congress. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This website gave me links to his recordings with his phonograph and some of his notes he took down while his experiments.
- http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/edison.html "Thomas Edison | American Inventor." Lucidcafé Interactive Café and Information Resource. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site helped gave me information on Thomas Edison and gave me books of him. It also gave me links to other websites that can help me get more information on Thomas Edison.
- http://www.monografias.com/trabajos97/the-life-work-and-legacy-of-thomas-alva-edison/the-life-work-and-legacy-of-thomas-alva-edison.shtml "The Life, work and legacy of Thomas Alva Edison - Monografias.com." Monografias.com - Tesis, Documentos, Publicaciones y Recursos Educativos. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site gave me a whole information on Thomas Edison’s life, his legacy, and the works he did.
- www.nps.gov/edis/forkids/index.htm "For Kids - Thomas Edison National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)." U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site helps me find out more about his helpful inventions and what his inventions helped the world with and why he was thinking about making these inventions he made.
- Site by Nimbus Digital http://www.themarkofaleader.com/library/stories/thomas-edison-changing-our-world-forever/ Thomas Edison – Changing our World Forever | The Mark of a Leader. (n.d.) This website helped me know his lifetime and how he changed the world. It also gives me information of his courageous and brave self.
- http://thomasedison.org Thomas Edison | Edison Innovation Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site gave me information all About Thomas Edison ,Edison’s Home Glenmont, Edison and Stem Education, Inventions, Quotes, Resource Books for Teachers
- http://thomasedison.info/memorials-and-legacy.html "Thomas Edison | All The Information About Thomas Edison." Thomas Edison | All The Information About Thomas Edison. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site gave me a paragraph information on his legacy he left behind which was a bright legacy.
- http://thomasedisonlifeandinventions.weebly.com/annotated-bibliography.html Annotated Bibliography - Thomas Edison: Life and Inventions. (n.d.) This site helped me know more about Thomas Edison’s inventions that he made from time to time.
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/edison_lo.html "Who Made America? | Innovators | Thomas Edison." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This site gave me info. on his life changing inventions and on his business of innovation and the complications of his life.
- www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/edison-light-bulb-and-eclipse-1878 "Edison, the Light Bulb and the Eclipse of 1878 | WyoHistory.org." WyoHistory.org | The Online Encyclopedia of Wyoming History. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. This website gave me a page information on when he visited in Wyoming Territory and how he explained that there will be an eclipse as he measured.