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Milan
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He did not learn to talk until he was almost four years of age
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Edison publishes the first newspaper printed aboard a moving train.
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Edison invents the stock ticker.
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Edison marries Mary Stilwell
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Thomas invented a new telegraph system for Western Union that could send four telegraphs at once.
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Thomas called his invention the electric pen. It was an early form of a copy machine
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He invents the phonograph and the carbon-button telephone transmitter
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Thomas Edison merged his electric company with The Thomson-Houston Company to form General Electric.
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Thomas Edison died on October 18, and the country dimmed their lights in his honor on the day of his funeral. Thomas's inventions changed the way our world worked, and he gave us some of our most prized conveniences-electricity, batteries, and even a way to listen to music!
