Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the ... The bulb lasted for more than 40 hours and was considered a major breakthrough. The experiment, concluded on October 21, 1879, is ...

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Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park whose genius ushered in a new era of light and sound for humankind, invented the phonograph at his New Jersey laboratory on this day in history ...

IN this life of Thomas Alva Edison, the author has given a very interesting description of the childhood, youth, and manhood of America's —one might almost say, the world's —greatest living ...

Thomas Alva Edison: Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life. By Francis Arthur Jones. Pp. xvi + 375; with 22 illustrations. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.) Price 6s. net.

They had three kids: Marion Estelle, Thomas Alva Edison Jr., and William Leslie ... of recording and reproducing sound. His first experiment, notably playing back Mary Had a Little Lamb ...

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. -- Travel to the moon? "It's not within reason." Thomas Alva Edison said in 1911. The great American inventor, who was credited with the phonograph, the electric light and ...

And those teeth marks belong to Thomas Alva Edison. The inventor of the phonograph, motion pictures and the lightbulb was hard of hearing and found his own way to experience music. Robert Friedman ...