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Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
Theodore Miller Edison (July 10, 1898 – November 24, 1992) was an American businessman, inventor, and environmentalist. He was the fourth son and youngest child of inventor Thomas Edison, and founder of Calibron Industries, Inc. He was the third child of Edison with his second wife, Mina Miller Edison.
Mina and her husband went on to have three more children, Madeleine Edison (1888–1979); Charles Edison (1890–1969); and Theodore Miller Edison (1898–1992). As Thomas Edison supervised his laboratory down the hill, Mina hired and supervised a staff of maids, a cook, a nanny and a gardening staff. She even called herself the "home executive".
Thomas Edison invented a lot of things, including the doll version of the day after tomorrow. In the 1800's Edison figured out a way to record sound and he brought that technology to dolls.
The rhyme was the first audio recorded by Thomas Edison on his newly invented phonograph in 1877. [12] It was the first instance of recorded English verse, [12] following the recording of the French folk song "Au clair de la lune" by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860. In 1927, Edison reenacted the recording, which still survives. [13]
Getty By Jacquelyn Smith The job interview was born in 1921, when Thomas Edison created a written test to evaluate job candidates' knowledge. Since then, the process has come a long way. "As the ...
Richard Thomas didn't intend to replicate his iconic fictional family, but just like John and Olivia Walton, the actor has seven children of his own: Richard, Brooke, Barbara, Gwyneth, Pilar ...
Charles Edison (August 3, 1890 – July 31, 1969) was an American politician. He was the Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd governor of New Jersey. Commonly known as "Lord Edison", he was a son of the inventor Thomas Edison and Mina Miller Edison.