Thomas Alva Edison: The Scientists and Inventors Series (Dramatized)

Edison was a prolific inventor. Among his hundreds of patents is the gramophone, the electric light bulb, the telephone, the kinematograph, and the electricity generator. Of all the people who have shaped our modern world it is Edison who had more impact than anyone else. In his 84 years of life, Edison rose from unschooled rustic to the most celebrated inventor of all time; the man who, for a price, would invent anything for anyone, and would lose the money just as easily on fruitless investigation; the man who, for most of his life, worked for 20 hours a day, often for days on end, without sleep, until his work was perfected.