Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #55: Thomas Edison (1847-1931) Thomas Edison (1847-1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed numerous devices that improved life around the world, including the phonograph and a long-lasting light bulb. Edison obtained 1,093 United States patents, the most issued to any individual. Perhaps more importantly, Edison transformed the process of invention from a small-scale, sporatic and often chaotic effort into a systematized and organized mass production process. In other words, he created the first industrial research laboratory designed for the specific purpose of producing continuous technological innovation and improvement. Go to #56: Columbus Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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