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1/3 of the space devoted to U.S. exhibits at the 1889 Paris Centennial Exposition was occupied by his inventions |
Edison
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$1,200 |
DJ |
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS |
2014-12-16 |
#6962 |
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His 1869 inspiration was the stock ticker |
Edison
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$800 |
J |
INVENTORS |
2012-06-15 |
#6400 |
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As a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway in 1862, he "saw the light" & published the first newspaper printed on a train |
Thomas Edison
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$400 |
J |
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS |
2011-09-28 |
#6213 |
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In December 1877 editors of Sci. American checked out his cylinder phonograph; the sentimental value alone is huge! |
Edison
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$800 |
DJ |
WE HAWK OLD INVENTIONS |
2009-12-29 |
#5822 |
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Inducted in 1973, he "earned patents for more than a thousand inventions, including... the phonograph" |
Edison
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$800 |
DJ |
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME |
2006-02-13 |
#4936 |
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Shortly after establishing a lab in Menlo Park, N.J., he invented the carbon telephone transmitter |
Edison
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$200 |
J |
INVENTORS |
2006-02-01 |
#4928 |
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In 1891 he devised the kinetoscope, a device you looked into to watch moving pictures |
Edison
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$400 |
DJ |
INVENTORS |
2005-02-10 |
#4709 |
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For his "enlightening" inventions, he was called the "Wizard of Menlo Park" |
Thomas Edison
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$800 |
DJ |
SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS |
2003-09-22 |
#4376 |
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On October 1, 1880 he opened the first incandescent lamp factory in Menlo Park, New Jersey |
Edison
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$800 |
DJ |
INVENTORS |
2002-01-02 |
#3993 |
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Nikola Tesla won a 1916 award for meritorious achievement in electrical science named for this former employer |
Thomas Edison
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$800 |
DJ |
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS |
2001-07-19 |
#3904 |
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In 1893 he built the Black Maria, the first building designed to make commercial motion pictures |
Thomas Edison
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$200 |
DJ |
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS |
2000-07-14 |
#3670 |
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He used the $40,000 made from his universal stock printer to set up a lab in Newark, New Jersey |
Edison
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$100 |
J |
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS |
2000-03-30 |
#3594 |
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This phonograph inventor's son Charles served as governor of New Jersey from 1941 to 1944 |
Thomas Edison
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$200 |
DJ |
INVENTORS |
1999-06-17 |
#3419 |
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The medallion of the National Inventors Hall of Fame depicts this owner of 1,093 patents |
Thomas Edison
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$100 |
J |
INVENTORS |
1998-06-30 |
#3202 |
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21 years after developing an improved electric light, he invented the alkaline battery |
Thomas Edison
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$400 |
DJ |
INVENTORS |
1997-07-01 |
#2972 |
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At age 7 this "Wizard Of Menlo Park" attended public school for 3 months--his only formal education |
Thomas Edison
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$200 |
DJ |
INVENTORS |
1997-02-05 |
#2868 |
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The first important product from his Menlo Park, N.J. lab was the carbon telephone transmitter |
Thomas Edison
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$200 |
DJ |
INVENTORS |
1996-05-06 |
#2701 |
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His West Orange, New Jersey home was made a national historic site in 1955 |
Thomas Edison
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$100 |
J |
INVENTORS |
1996-03-27 |
#2673 |
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As a child this light bulb inventor labeled his chemicals "poison" so his family wouldn't touch them |
Edison
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$200 |
J |
INVENTORS |
1996-02-20 |
#2647 |
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At the 1889 Paris Centennial Exposition, 1/4 of the American exhibit space was devoted to his inventions |
Thomas Edison
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$400 |
DJ |
INVENTORS |
1996-01-25 |
#2629 |
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He used money from his improved stock ticker to open his first workshop in Newark |
Edison
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$600 |
DJ |
INVENTORS |
1995-06-30 |
#2510 |
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While working as a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway, he printed a newspaper, the Weekly Herald |
Edison
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$400 |
J |
INVENTORS |
1994-06-17 |
#2270 |
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One of his first inventions at Menlo Park was the carbon transmitter |
Edison
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$100 |
J |
INVENTORS |
1993-10-19 |
#2097 |
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In 1876 he moved his research laboratory from Newark to Menlo Park |
Thomas Edison
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$100 |
J |
INVENTORS |
1993-10-12 |
#2092 |
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In 1876 he introduced a carbon transmitter for Bell's telephone |
Thomas Edison
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$500 |
J |
INVENTIONS |
1992-11-10 |
#1882 |
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In 1882 he installed the 1st large central electric power station on NYC's Pearl Street |
Thomas Edison
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$200 |
J |
INVENTORS |
1992-07-10 |
#1830 |
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He'd planned to charge only $5,000 for his stock ticker patents, but was offered $40,000 |
Edison
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$600 |
DJ |
INVENTORS |
1991-10-24 |
#1644 |
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In 1941, the son of this inventor became governor of New Jersey |
Thomas Edison
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$800 |
DJ |
INVENTORS |
1988-02-19 |
#805 |
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Thanks to his invention, we saw Mickey Rooney & Spencer Tracy play him in the movies |
Thomas Edison
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$600 |
DJ |
INVENTIONS |
1985-11-22 |
#315 |
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Many dimmed their lights in tribute on the day this inventor was buried |
Edison
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$200 |
DJ |
INVENTIONS |
1985-02-06 |
#108 |