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The electrographic vote recorder
light bulb
Printing Telegraphs
Type Writing Machines
Relay MagnetsStencil-Pens
Electric Lights
Electric Lamp
Telephone
Dynamo-Electric Machine
-Thomas Edison Invent about 1093 patent. Wow! That’s a lot.
-In 1871, Edison met his first wife, Mary Stilwell, and married her on Christmas Day of that year.
-Mary and Thomas had a daughter, Marion (1873), and two sons, Thomas, Jr. (1876) and William (1878)
-When he was 21 years of age, he developed a telegraphic vote-recording machine. This was the first of his inventions to be patented.
“Our greatest weakness lies in
giving up. The most certain way to
succeed is always to try just one
more time.”
“Opportunity is missed by most
people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.”
“I have not failed. I've just found
10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas Edison
National
Historical Park
His House
Thomas Edison Depot Museum
Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and
Museum
Menlo Park
The phonograph are Thomas Edison most favorite invention. He made some improvements from Alexander Graham telephone in 1877. The phonograph would record the spoken voice and play it back. Back then, people would pay a lot of money for this. That’s why this invention was successful.
He died because of
Complications of
diabetes mellitus
West Orange, New
Jersey , at the age
of 84.
When he
died, people
capture his last
breath to hold as
memories.
Thomas Edison dies
on October 18 -
1931
