Thomas Edison

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