Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (now Edison, New Jersey) by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large te... More

Date of birth:

  • Feb 11, 1847

Date of death:

  • Oct 18, 1931 (age 84 years)

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  • Thomas Alva Edison,
  • Edison, Thomas

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  • Person

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  • Edison was a transitional figure in the late-nineteenth-century who applied the advances of science to industry in order to develop commercially-successful inventions

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  • natural sciences and mathematics

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  • inventor
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