Thomas Edison | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 08/01/2019

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00:01:59 1 Early life
00:04:38 2 Early career
00:08:05 3 Menlo Park laboratory (1876–1886)
00:08:20 3.1 Research and development facility
00:14:09 3.2 Phonograph
00:16:10 3.3 Carbon telephone transmitter
00:18:27 3.4 Electric light
00:25:09 3.5 Electric power distribution
00:26:49 3.6 War of currents
00:32:37 4 West Orange and Fort Myers (1886–1931)
00:35:26 5 Other inventions and projects
00:35:37 5.1 Fluoroscopy
00:36:54 5.2 Tasimeter
00:37:24 5.3 Telegraph improvements
00:38:02 5.4 Motion pictures
00:43:19 5.5 Mining
00:44:50 5.6 Battery
00:45:44 5.7 Chemicals
00:49:14 6 Final years and death
00:49:24 6.1 Final years
00:53:07 6.2 Death
00:54:08 7 Marriages and children
00:57:57 8 Views
00:58:06 8.1 On politics, religion, and metaphysics
01:02:04 8.2 On the monetary system
01:03:59 9 Awards
01:07:12 10 Tributes
01:07:21 10.1 Places and people named for Edison
01:09:25 10.2 Museums and memorials
01:11:43 10.3 Companies bearing Edison's name
01:12:50 10.4 Awards named in honor of Edison
01:14:20 10.5 Other items named after Edison
01:15:01 10.6 In popular culture
01:16:17 11 List of people who worked for Edison
01:20:01 12 See also



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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He is credited with developing many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb, had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. He is often credited with establishing the first industrial research laboratory.Edison was raised in the American midwest and early in his career he worked as a telegraph operator, which inspired some of his earliest inventions. In 1876, he established his first laboratory facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where many of his early inventions would be developed. He would later establish a botanic laboratory in Fort Myers, Florida in collaboration with businessmen Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, and a laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey that featured the world's first film studio, the Black Maria. He was a prolific inventor, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as patents in other countries. Edison married twice and fathered six children. He died in 1931 of complications of diabetes.