Tomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison
The portrait is made in the style of modern art of postmodernism and impressionism, painting on canvas on a stretcher 70x50cm, acrylic, varnish. Application technique - palette knife, spatula.
American inventor and entrepreneur, received in the US 1093 patents and about 3 thousand - in other countries of the world; the creator of the phonograph; improved the telegraph, telephone, film equipment, developed one of the first commercially successful options for an electric incandescent lamp.
It was he who suggested using the word "hello" at the beginning of a telephone conversation. In 1928, he was awarded the highest honor in the United States, the Gold Medal of Congress. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States (1927).