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Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio
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Marries Mary Stillwell
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Edison invents the electric pen
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Designed phonograph and the carbon transmitter
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Edison invents the light bulb
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Edison marries Mina Miller
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Developed a system for making motion pictures
Thomas A. Edison, to whom the world owes the Moving picture Idea. -
Edison works on alkaline storage battery
1901 Alkaline Storage - Thomas Alva Edison invented the alkaline storage battery. Thomas Edison's alkaline cell had iron as the anode material (-) and nickelic oxide as the cathode material (+).http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventions/a/History-Of-The-Battery.htm -
Edison dies in Llewellyn Park, New Jersey