Thomas Edison

From 1976 to 2018, Shunpei Yamazaki from Japan patented 5264 inventions.
He is an inventor with the most inventions. This is an extraordinary number,
but you might be surprised to hear that the top 10 inventors in the world are modern inventors,
and are still active today.

However, this cannot make Thomas Edison look bad because he’s at number 11 and he died almost 90 years ago.
1084 inventions were patented by Edison between 1847 and 1931.
Edison lived at a time when technological advancement was slow,
and a lot of inventors didn’t used to work in big teams.

Edison is more famous than today’s inventors because his inventions were pivotal in human history.
The phonograph was invented in 1877. It was the first machine that could record sounds.
The first successful light bulb was developed and improved by Edison two years later.
Think of all the difference that this invention made in our lives,
and you will realise why his inventions seem more important.