The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that occupational therapists made $74,970 a year on average in May 2011. The top 10 percent of workers in the field made over $104,350 and the bottom 10 percent earned less than $49,980. Half of workers in the occupation made between $61,520 and $88,790 a year.
These patents covered a carbon rod in a nitrogen filled glass cylinder, and differed substantially from the first commercially practical bulb invented by Edison. Edison's major innovation was the first industrial research lab, which was built in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was built with the funds from the sale of Edison's quadruplex telegraph.
Thomas Edison is famous for his lightbulb, but he never won a Nobel Prize. The 2014 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has gone to three scientists who discovered brain cells that help us stay orientedâour inner GPS..