Edison

Thomas Edison

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    Thomas Edison

  • Thomas Alva Edison - Birth

    Thomas Alva Edison - Birth
  • Patent for automatic vote recorder for legislatures.

    Patent for automatic vote recorder for legislatures.
  • Printing Telegraphs patent

    Printing Telegraphs patent
  • Automatic Electrical Switch patent

    Automatic Electrical Switch patent
  • Thomas Edison, first Marriage

    Thomas Edison, first Marriage
  • Type Writing Machines patent

    Type Writing Machines patent
  • Stencil Pens patent

    Stencil Pens patent
  • Tin Foil Phonograph

    Tin Foil Phonograph
  • Speaking Machines patent

    Speaking Machines patent
  • Telephone Call Signal patent

  • Speaking telephones patent

    Speaking telephones patent
  • Light Bulb

  • Electric Lamp Patent

    Electric Lamp Patent
  • Edison Illuminating Company

  • First DC electric power station.

    Edison opens the first DC (direct current) electric power station on Pearl Street in Manhattan. Within five years, 120 more Edison power stations will open across the United States, delivering DC electricity to customers and dominating the energy market. But DC electricity can only be transmitted about a mile before it starts to lose power.
  • End of Marriage, Mary Stilwell

    End of Marriage, Mary Stilwell
  • Second Marriage, Mina Miller

    Second Marriage, Mina Miller
  • Motion Picture Projector

    Edison invents the kinetoscope, an early motion picture projector—a "machine which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear."
  • Thomas Edison - Death