When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

    Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation , mass communication , sound recording , and motion pictures. [ 4 ]

  3. List of Edison patents - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Edison_patents

    Throughout the 20th century, Edison was the world's most prolific inventor. At the beginning of the century, he held 736 U.S. patents. His final count was 1,093 U.S. patents, including 1084 utility patents (patents for inventions) and 9 artistic design patents. It was not until June 17, 2003 that he was passed by Japanese inventor Shunpei ...

  4. Electric pen - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_pen

    Edison recognized the possible demand for a high-speed copying device after observing the incredible amount of document duplication required of merchants, lawyers, insurance companies, and those of similar occupations. [1] To satisfy this demand, Edison invented the electric pen, which uses a perforating function inspired by the printing telegraph.

  5. She came out to play — and petrify. A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and “the stuff of nightmares.”

  6. 50 Inventions From The Past That Were Amazingly Innovative - AOL

    www.aol.com/98-historical-inventions-were-ahead...

    Thomas Edison invented the cylindrical phonograph in 1877 and was looking for ways to commercialize it. In 1888, Edison developed a china doll equipped with a cylindrical phonograph with pre ...

  7. How the 173-year-old glassmaker behind Edison’s light bulb ...

    www.aol.com/finance/173-old-glass-maker-behind...

    Dated Nov. 17, 1880, it’s Thomas Edison’s $311.97 order for Corning Glass Works to produce the glass for a risky new invention of his: the lightbulb. ... Corning may have invented the stuff, ...

  8. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_electrical_and...

    Thomas Alva Edison invents the fuse: 1893: During the Fourth International Conference of Electricians in Chicago, electrical units were defined 1893: English physicist J. J. Thomson invented waveguides. 1894: Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi begins developing the first radio wave based wireless telegraphy communication system [6] [7] 1895

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

    www.aol.com/news/2015-05-06-hear-thomas-edisons...

    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.