thomas edison

Thomas Alva Eison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

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Radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden, holder of 500 patents, once worked in this man's New Jersey lab
One of his patents that year was for a motion-picture projector, the kinetoscope
The medallion of the National Inventors Hall of Fame depicts this owner of 1,093 patents
This inventor is buried on the grounds of Glenmont, his West Orange, New Jersey home
When you turn on a light bulb, you can thank him; he invented it
On January 27, 1880 he received a patent for his incandescent light
His West Orange, New Jersey home was made a national historic site in 1955
He tried to help the town of Dolores, N.M. in 1900 by using static electricity to extract gold out of gravel
National Inventors Day, February 11
In 1910 this inventor's company produced the first film depicting the fabled monster
This inventor had the bright idea to plant hundreds of palms in Fort Myers, now known as "The City of Palms"
Home-schooling him for discipline problems paid off; he later moved to Menlo Park, N.J. & was very inventive in his lab
In 1893 he built the Black Maria, the first building designed to make commercial motion pictures
At age 7 this "Wizard Of Menlo Park" attended public school for 3 months -- his only formal education
This phonograph inventor's son Charles served as governor of New Jersey from 1941 to 1944
"The Father of the Phonograph"
The collaboration between this man & W.K.L. Dickson led to the production of the kinetoscope in 1894
In 1891 this man of Menlo Park got a patent for a "means of transmitting signals electrically"
On August 24, 1891 he filed a patent for his motion picture camera
What was once the town of Raritan is now named for this "inventive" New Jersey resident
He established his electric light company in 1878, a year before he perfected his bulb
In 1894 this inventor sold all of his shares in General Electric, but stayed on as a consultant
In 1882 this inventor opened the Pearl Street Power Station in New York
His recitation of the poem in 1877 didn't amaze people until he played it back
The motor-driven phonograph he invented in 1888 played wax cylinders
In 1898 he came to Omaha to supervise the lighting of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition
At the 1889 Paris Centennial Exposition, 1/4 of the American exhibit space was devoted to his inventions
As a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway in 1862, he "saw the light" & published the first newspaper printed on a train
He first saw the light on Feb. 11, 1847; the bulbs dimmed on Oct. 18, 1931
21 years after developing an improved electric light, he invented the alkaline battery
This inventor supposedly offered G.W. Carver over $100,000 a year to work for him, but he declined
We should see a light bulb above your head if you know that this man's middle name was Alva
Time ran out on my stock tocker after this prolific inventor cornered the market with his stock ticker in 1870
In the early 1900s this American inventor developed the alkaline cell battery
In 1876 he introduced a carbon transmitter for Bell's telephone
In his teens in the 1860s this "bright light" of inventors worked as a roving telegraph operator
In 1869 he resigned his Western Union operator's job to devote more time to his inventions
This American seen here might have left the light on for you
This inventor's Fort Myers, Florida home features handmade light bulbs from 1925
Thanks to his invention, we saw Mickey Rooney & Spencer Tracy play him in the movies
The mimeograph was invented by this man around 1876
This inventor's historical site library includes his Oscar for his work in motion picture technology
(Sarah of the Clue Crew at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan) With money earned from his stock ticker, this inventor built his Menlo Park laboratory in 1876
Nikola Tesla won a 1916 award for meritorious achievement in electrical science named for this former employer
On Jan. 4, 1903 this inventor executed an elephant named Topsy to prove the "dangers" of alternating current
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Heritage Village in Cincinnati) In 1874 this man invented the quadriplex system to handle 4 messages at once over one wire
At his death in 1931, this Jersey boy had more than a thousand patents to his name
In October 1879 he discovered that a thread of carbonized cotton will burn for 13 hours in a vacuum
He got 34 patents for the telephone, but don't say Bell; he also got 389 for electric light & power

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