If we think about creative persons in history, we will find that there are many creative persons who worked in different areas. They are scientists, politician, artists, philosopher etc. Studying about their biography, behavior and thinking process help us to understand creativity and improve our creative skill. The creative person analyzed in this essay is accepted as the man who lights the world up (Beals, 1997). Obviously, his name is Thomas Edison. Many things that he invented have influenced the world until now. Learning and analyzing his achievement, biography and characteristic will help us understand why people honor him as a creative inventor.
In Edison’s life, there are more than 1,000 inventions that he invents. However, most people think that his famous and influential invention is the incandescent light bulb, although he did not invent. Actually, the thing that he made and significantly influences the world is a complete central power station in Brockton, Massachusetts, USA in 1883. This is the first power plant that safely generates and distributes electricity that effected developing of other technology like a chain reaction (Beals, 1997). Moreover, in 1890, his interesting focused on inventing the first Vitascope. This would go ahead to the first silent motion picture. Furthermore, During the World War I, he has been working for the U. S. government in order to inventing the defensive system for submarines and ships. Also, there are other inventions that are prototypes of the present products such as telephone, phonograph, generator, motor etc. Consequently, “The father of the electricity age” and “The greatest inventor who ever lived” were the designation that he was honor. (Beals, 1997)
Since being a child, Edison has had character of creative person. First of all, we can notice from physiology. Balzac (2006) discussed about neurobiology of creativity in his article that requirement of creativity is coactivation and communication between brain network. He concluded that creative people are different from general people in three things; a high level of knowledge, processing of the frontal lobe (a part of the brain) to generate the divergent thinking and adjustability of neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine in their frontal lobe. Actually, there is nobody to try to check his knowledge or to experiment with his brain. However, Edison has the unusually broad forehead and the head that is larger than average (Beals, 1997). These means his frontal lobe is larger than usual people, which implies that he is more intelligent than others.
First, Edison is an individual who designed and created the 2-wire system of electricity power plant (this system is imperfect, because of using too much copper wire for distributing the electricity). The power plant is as a field or a set of social institution. And, finally, this kind of power plant was judged by society or people who use his service. No doubt for answers of people, who used electricity from his power plants, it was certain that people got benefit and comfortable from using electricity.
