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  2. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace - Wikipedia

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    The upstairs attic level includes two more bedrooms. The house is furnished with Edison family artifacts. [2] The house was built and designed by Samuel Edison in 1841, on land purchased by his wife, Nancy Elliott Edison. His son Thomas was born here in 1847, and it remained the family home until 1854, when they moved to Port Huron, Michigan.

  4. Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park, also known as the Menlo Park Museum / Edison Memorial Tower, is a memorial to inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison, located in the Menlo Park area of Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The tower was dedicated on February 11, 1938, on what would have been the inventor's 91st birthday.

  5. William Kennedy Dickson - Wikipedia

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    At age 19 in 1879, William Dickson wrote a letter to American inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison seeking employment. He was turned down. That same year Dickson, his mother, and two sisters moved from Britain to Virginia. [4] In 1883 he was finally hired to work at Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. In 1888, Edison conceived of ...

  6. Edison Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Edison's films were made by the Kinetograph Department of the Edison Manufacturing Company. [ 4 ] Edison's first moviemaking studio—and also the world's first—was the "Black Maria" in West Orange, New Jersey , where production of Kinetoscope films began in early 1893.

  7. Edison Records - Wikipedia

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    Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877.After patenting the invention and benefiting from the publicity and acclaim it received, Edison and his laboratory turned their attention to the commercial development of electric lighting, playing no further role in the development of the phonograph for nearly a decade.

  8. Hear Thomas Edison's talking doll that scared kids in 1890

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    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.

  9. List of things named after Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    The Port Huron Museum, in Port Huron, Michigan, restored the original depot that Thomas Edison worked out of as a young news butcher. The depot has been named the Thomas Edison Depot Museum. [15] The town has many Edison historical landmarks, including the graves of Edison's parents, and a monument along the St. Clair River.