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This was when Thomas Alva Edison was alive.
Patent - Keeps a person's idea his idea and illegal to copy.
Investor - A person who gives money to someone to make or do something to get more money back.
Inventor - A person who creates new technology to make life easier.
Invention - A device that a person creates to help with daily life
Dynamo - A big generator that creates mass amounts of electricity since the 1800s.
Filament - The wire inside an incasadent lightbulb, producing light. -
When Edison had a lab on his train, one of his chemical mixtures caught fire and the conductor stooped his lab in the baggage cart.
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Because Edison created an invention that nobody wanted, he started to only make things that he was sure people wanted.
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Thomas Edison created the electronic vote counter to speed up the process of recieveing votes, but the congress and government didn't want it.
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Because Edison created so many inventions, and lots of useful ones, he is famous.
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Thomas moved to Meleno Park, N.J., to build an compound for inventing, later named by Edison as the Invention Factory.
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Edison created the Phonograph his "baby" as he spent the most time working on it and he loved the invention a lot. It recorded and replayed sounds.
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Thomas Edison created a long lasting lightbulb using a filament.
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Thomas created the the Universal Stock Printer in Washington D.C., to send the price of gold down the street quickly.
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Edison lit up a NYC train station with his own light bulbs, 100 of them, in lighting them he also installed a dynamo for electricity.
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This was when Thomas Edison created the kintograph, a machine that lets you see a movie, like a projector.
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Because Edison is famous he knows other famous people as well, like Firestone, Ford, and Burroughs.
