你从未听说过的爱迪生发明  

Inventions by Thomas Edison That You’ve Never Heard Of

作　　者：Martha Barksdale Feronia 

出　　处：《新东方英语（中学版）》2014年第8期59-61,共3页

摘　　要：毫无疑问,如果没有爱迪生的发明,我们的生活将会大不相同。这位天才发明家凭借从他在新泽西的实验室里涌出的看上去不可思议的那些发明,以无数种方式改变了我们的文明。虽然这位＂门罗公园的巫师＂因他的那些重大发明而被人们铭记在心,比如白炽灯和留声机,但他那不知疲倦的大脑也想出过一些不那么出名和不受公众欢迎的点子。电子计票器当爱迪生凭借一种被他称为＂电子计票器＂的机器获得生平第一项专利时,他还是一名22岁的电报员。Without question, our lives would be very different without the inventions of Thomas Edison. This prodigious1） creator changed our culture in countless ways with the seemingly miraculous devices that flooded out of his New Jersey laboratory, But while the Wizare of menlo Park2） is remembered for his major inventions, such as the incandescent3） electric light and the phonograph4）, his tireless mind also came up with some ideas that aren＇t so well-known--and some that weren＇t welcomed by the public.

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分 类 号：G305[文化科学]