1. Edison - Noun
2. Edison - Proper noun
United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)
Source: WordNetEdison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. Napoleon Hill
It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today. Ben Carson
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? Al Boliska
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. Stephen Leacock
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. George Carlin
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round; They all laughed when Edison recorded sound. Ira Gershwin