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Date of Birth
Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Thomas Edison was the seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison. -
Phonograph
A phonograph is a turnable device that can record and reproduce sound. -
Quadruplex telegraph
The quadruplex telegraph is a type of electrical telegraph that allows multiple signals to be received on the same wire at the same time. -
Carbon Microphone
The carbon microphone is a device that converts sound to an electrical audio signal. -
Electric Pen
Thomas Edison's electric pen was made to duplicate handwritten documents and was the first electric-motor-driven office appliance. -
Tasimeter
The tasimeter is a device to measure infrared radiation. -
Phonomotor
The phonomotor is a device that measures the mechanical force of sound. -
Incandescent light bulb
The incandescent light bulb was a wire with a glass sphere containing it and the wire gets heated up until it glows. -
Electric Power Station
The electric power station was made so people at home could get electricity for their broadcasting systems and their TV’s. -
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Married and married again
Thomas Edison was married to Mary Stilwell Edison and in 1884 Mary sadly passed away possibly from a brain tumor.
Thomas Edison remarried to Mina Miller on February 24, 1886. -
Mimeograph
A mimeograph machine was a duplicating machine that worked by putting ink through a stencil onto the paper. -
Kinetograph
The Kinetograph was used to take a series of photographs of humans or moving objects. It was important because it was one of the first objects that could take a photograph of a human. -
Kinetoscope
The Kinetoscope was designed for someone to view a show through a peephole. It was important because it made it possible for people nowadays to be able to make the object that today is a TV. -
Date of Death
For his last two years, a series of ailments caused his health to decline even more until he lapsed into a coma on October 14, 1931.