Thomas Edison – 4th place Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous and prolific inventor of all time. During his life, over 1100 patents were issued to him or his associates; he was known as the wizard of Menlo Park, the town in New Jersey where he set up his first invention factory. Yet he was not really a scientist, having no theory or mathematics, and most of his success came from perfecting the ideas of others …showed first 75 words of 859 total…

…showed last 75 words of 859 total…mind. Also his invention of the phonograph revolutionized the music industry as is made listening to music at home possible for the first time. Also his invention of the vacuum tube helped not only the radio invention but it was one of the key instruments in the first computer, another invention which I cannot possibly imagine life without. Such an inventor should not go unnoticed in time and that’s why I ranked him 4th.