Creativity

BLOG #3 

Today is about someone who I think is creative. Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 the last of seven. His mother and father settled down at Port Huron where they spent there time in poverty and privation. (Dyer, Martin, Meadowcroft,1929). Thomas spent his brief boyhood with his parents on the farm leaving school at an early age. although poor they did live comfortably where his dad lived his life in the lumber industry. Some people blame thomas’s father for his lack of knowledge. After working with his mother, being homeschooled, he learned to master books of chemistry (p.27) with the mastery of books came reward and payment from his father. With his interest in electricity the home soon saw the first Edison’s Laboratory. With experimenting at the age of 10 or 11 he wondered why he didn’t become a chemist himself. With the constant experiments he lead himself to become familiar with batteries. As I continue to read I soon realised that thomas provided for himself in a variety of ways as a young kid just eleven years old. In pages 30-33 it explains how thomas made use of selling his goods on the train such as; newspaper and candy along with the vegetables he and his family harvested during the seasons bringing in profits for himself and his family. When work was not particular heavy he used the empty train car to transfer his lab from the cellar to the train. I found this creative as he used the leasyre if his time on the train when it was not particularly busy traveling from one city to the next. Thomas as a young entrepreneur reminds me of the ‘little-C’ creativity as talked about in the class lecture. It is a form of creative thinking and Thomas was filed with it, finding different ideas and different ways of doing things, making them easier to find and better than what it was. But all of his little-C eventually led up to the ‘Big-C’ when it mattered the most (Procter 2020). With thomas’s idea of printing new letters on the train (where he made most of his money with the news on the war) soon came to an end when his chemicals fell causing a fame, leaving him ejected along with his possessions.  Time went by leaving him to become deaf. Finding new ways to fix/upgrade so he can hear and better understand how they work. This lead thomas to have more than 1093 patents to this date. Altho creativity was addressed as the main topic of class lecture I found that the few creative people that were addressed had no contradiction in what was learned in class and all had an equal charistic of Thomas Alva Edison. With the systems of creativity in place I found that on page 38 of the book Thomas A Edison has acquired slight deafness in his ear, since working as a telegraph operator he had to improve the transmitter so he can actually hear. This made the rendering defect of sound better in multiple instruments better as he worked over one year 20 hours a day, Sundays and all to get the word ‘specie’ correct ultimately changing what we know about the domain along with many other creative works that will eventually lead to the changing of the future.