Who failed 1000 times?

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THOMAS EDISON:
He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?"
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Who failed 999 times?

The famous story goes, Edison failed to refine the light bulb (one of the few creations he merely refined but did not invent) so many times it took him 10,000 attempts to perfect. However rather than accepting failure 9,999 times he is quoted as answering questions on his failures as rather: 'I have not failed.
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How many times did Thomas Edison invent?

Did you know? By the time he died on October 18, 1931, Thomas Edison had amassed a record 1,093 patents: 389 for electric light and power, 195 for the phonograph, 150 for the telegraph, 141 for storage batteries and 34 for the telephone.
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What is Thomas Edison's most famous quote?

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” “I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.” “Hell, there are no rules here – we're trying to accomplish something.” “One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work.
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How many prototypes did Thomas Edison have?

For example, in developing a commercially viable light bulb, Edison actually went through over ten thousand prototypes before getting it right.
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He Failed 1000 Times (Real Life Story)



Who failed many times before succeeding?

Albert Einstein

As a child he didn't start speaking until he was four, reading until he was seven, and was thought to be mentally handicapped. If he gave up and never persevered, his most important theories could not have been known. He went on to win a Nobel Prize and altered the world's approach to physics.
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What was Thomas Edison's favorite color?

Edison's favorite colors were green and gold! : r/ThomasEdison.
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Was Edison deaf?

That is how Edison described himself, but in fact he was not totally deaf. It is more accurate to say he was very hard of hearing. He once wrote, "I have not heard a bird sing since I was twelve years old."
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Who said I have not failed I just found 10000 ways?

In response to a question about his missteps, Edison once said, “I have not failed 10,000 times—I've successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.”
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What is Thomas Jefferson's most famous quote?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. . . ." "it is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free." "our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
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Who is failure in life?

Failure is defined as a lack of success or the inability to meet an expectation. The problem is that we can read too much into failure. Too often, we tie it to our sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and self-acceptance.
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Who invented bulb first time?

How Edison Invented the Light Bulb — And Lots of Myths About Himself. Still life of the first electric light bulb, invented by Thomas Alva Edison in 1879 and patented on January 27, 1880.
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What does I have not failed I've just found 10000 ways that won't work mean?

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” -Thomas Edison. Edison was famous for never giving up in his search for the construction of the electric light bulb. Without his tenacity and almost hard-headed way of never giving up, his idea may not have ever come to fruition.
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What are some famous failures?

Sir James Dyson suffered through 5,126 failed prototypes before he landed on the first working Dyson vacuum. Elvis Presley was fired from the Grand Ole Opry and was told to go back to truck driving. Colonel Harland Sanders of KFC fame was rejected over 1000 times before finding a franchise partner.
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How many tries before Thomas Edison failed?

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THOMAS EDISON:

He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.
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Who has never made a mistake?

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” (Albert Einstein.)
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What was Thomas Edison's last words?

Inventor Thomas Edison's last words were close in spirit to Jobs's reported exit line. According to various sources, including the book "Edison: Inventing the Century" by Neil Baldwin, hours before his death, Edison emerged from a coma, opened his eyes, looked upwards and said "It is very beautiful over there."
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Have not failed 10000 times I've successfully found 10000 ways that will not work?

I just found 10,000 ways that won't work."-Thomas Edison.
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Did Thomas Edison invent Morse code?

Warning! Edison's first invention at 16. It sent telegraph signals between unmanned stations, allowing almost anyone to easily and precisely translate code at his own speed and convenience. Edison never patented this invention.
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How many hours a night did Thomas Edison sleep?

AUTHOR. Thomas Edison was famously opposed to sleeping. In an 1889 interview published in Scientific American, the ever energetic inventor of the lightbulb claimed he never slept more than four hours a night.
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What was Thomas Edison's greatest challenge?

A Practical Light Bulb

Thomas Edison's greatest challenge was the development of a practical incandescent, electric light. Contrary to popular belief, he didn't "invent" the lightbulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea.
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What's a blind person's favorite color?

The trichromats responded just as subjects in other studies had. Their ratings were lowest for yellow-green colors, and highest for blue. But colorblind subjects really liked yellow. They rated bold yellow hues as highly as, or higher than, blue ones.
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Do blind people have Favourite Colours?

Blue, red and yellow, which are primary colors, are the favorite colors of most colorblind people. Blue is the most favorite one and brown is the least-liked color for people with color deficiency.
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What was Edison middle name?

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio; the seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison.
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