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Home : History & Biography : Biography Study Guides : Thomas Edison : Study Questions and Essay Topics
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Study Questions and Essay Topics
Study Questions
Discuss the significance of the American
tycoons (such as Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and Carnegie) on Edison's approach
to the marketplace.
How did Edison incorporate the business
ideas of the day into his invention factories at Menlo Park and
West Orange?
How did Edison's invention strategy change
as he got older?
Essay Topics
How did technology affect the young Thomas Edison, even
before he became an inventor?
How did Edison's behavior as a student and as a young
telegraph operator foreshadow his approach to invention and the business
world?
Why did Edison initially neglect one of his most important inventions,
the phonograph?
How did competition among inventors (for example, the
battles between Alexander Graham Bell and Edison) spur new inventions?
Why did many of Edison's young inventors in the Menlo
Park and West Orange facilities leave?
Discuss the importance of failures-such as the battle
over AC systems or ore-milling–in Edison's career.
Which image fits Edison better: the image of the lone
inventor, or the image of the business magnate?
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