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When Thomas Alva Edison was alive
This was when Thomas Alva Edison was alive.
Patent - Keeps a person's idea his idea and illegal to copy.
Investor - A person who gives money to someone to make or do something to get more money back.
Inventor - A person who creates new technology to make life easier.
Invention - A device that a person creates to help with daily life
Dynamo - A big generator that creates mass amounts of electricity since the 1800s.
Filament - The wire inside an incasadent lightbulb, producing light. -
CE - Chemical Fire
When Edison had a lab on his train, one of his chemical mixtures caught fire and the conductor stooped his lab in the baggage cart. -
CE - E-vote-counter
Because Edison created an invention that nobody wanted, he started to only make things that he was sure people wanted. -
ME - Electronic Vote Counter
Thomas Edison created the electronic vote counter to speed up the process of recieveing votes, but the congress and government didn't want it. -
I - Inventions
Because Edison created so many inventions, and lots of useful ones, he is famous. -
ME - Thomas Edison moved to Meleno Park
Thomas moved to Meleno Park, N.J., to build an compound for inventing, later named by Edison as the Invention Factory. -
ME - The phonograph
Edison created the Phonograph his "baby" as he spent the most time working on it and he loved the invention a lot. It recorded and replayed sounds. -
WE - Light Bulb
Thomas Edison created a long lasting lightbulb using a filament. -
ME - Universal Stock Printer
Thomas created the the Universal Stock Printer in Washington D.C., to send the price of gold down the street quickly. -
ME - N.Y.C. Train Station has lights
Edison lit up a NYC train station with his own light bulbs, 100 of them, in lighting them he also installed a dynamo for electricity. -
MD - Kintograph
This was when Thomas Edison created the kintograph, a machine that lets you see a movie, like a projector. -
I - Other people
Because Edison is famous he knows other famous people as well, like Firestone, Ford, and Burroughs.
