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Thomas Edison - Inventor

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Thomas Edison - Inventor
Thomas Alva Edison is one of the most prolific inventors in history and holds over 1,093 US patents. Most of his inventions were based on telecommunications. Some of Thomas Edison's more notable inventions include electricity distribution in 1880, the mechanical vote recorder, electric car battery, recorded music (sound recording & reproducing phonograph in 1878), two-way telegraph in 1892, motion picture cameras (the Kinetograph) and the stock ticker.

This photo was taken circa 1901 in his laboratory located in East Orange New Jersey.

Thomas Edison was born in Milan Ohio on February 11th 1847 and died due to complications of diabetes in Llewellyn Park West Orange, New Jersey on October 18th 1931.
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Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio United States of America to Nancy (Elliot) Edison and Samuel Ogden Edison Jr, and had siblings Marion Wallace Edison, William Pitt Edison, Harriet Ann (Edison), Carlile Snow Edison, Samuel Ogden Edison III, and Eliza Smith Edison. He married Mary Stilwell on December 25, 1871, and they were married until Mary's death on August 9, 1884. They had children Marion Estelle Edison, Thomas Alva Edison Jr, and William Leslie Edison. He also married Mina Miller Edison on February 24, 1886, and they were married until Thomas' death on October 18, 1931. They had children Madeleine Edison, Charles Edison, and Theodore Miller Edison. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Alva Edison.
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