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| "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-one percent perspiration."- Thomas Edison |
| Born February 11, 1887 in Milan, Ohio Died October 18, 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey at 84 |
| Some facts about The Great Inventor |
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| Edison went completely deaf at the age of twelve because he was pulled up to a train car by his ears. |
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| Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, Jersey with the Automatic Repeater. |
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| One invention first gained him fame was the Phonograph in 1877. |
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| The Phonograph patent, was unprecedented as the first device to RECORD SOUND AND REPRODUCE SOUND!!! |
| Was he the first man of Sound? |
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| He then became involved in motion picture and made his first silent movie "The great Train Robbery." which only lasts about ten minutes. |
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| One of his famous quotes that really stuck with me..............read on....... |
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| "My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it." "Do we Live Again?"- Thomas Edison Great Inventor |
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| In 1877/1878 he invented the carbon microphone used in all telephones today along with the Bell receiver in the 1880's. Rumors had it that Edison was very jealous of Alexendar Graham Bell when he beat Edison to the punch inventing the Telephone:-) |
| In Loving and Honored memory of |
| Thomas Alva Edison |
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| His final resting place R.I.P. |
| He also became involved in the development of the electric chair. |
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| In 1878 Edison formed the Edison Electric Light Company also known now as General Electric Company"GE" |