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As a boy, Thomas Edison worked with the Grand Trunk Railroad. He set up his very own chemistry lab on board the train. -
Throughout the Civil War Thomas worked as a wire operator. He became familiar with the telegraph instruments and started experimenting with them. -
After beginning work with Western Union, Thomas invented an automatic vote recorder. He filed his very first patent for this machine. -
He moved to New Jersey and used all of his money and time to work on new inventions. He invented several stock market machines during this time. -
Thomas Edison gets married to Mary Stillwell -
Thomas invented a new telegraph system for Western Union that could send four telegraphs at once. -
Thomas called his invention the electric pen. It was an early form of a copy machine. -
Thomas Edison invented the carbon transmitter, which was used in the telephone and helped it work much better. The carbon discovery helped pave the way for Edison's most well-known invention. -
Thomas invented the phonograph, which played music. He later improved the phonograph, and made it cheap enough for the general public to afford. -
Using the power of carbon, Edison invented a lamp that lit without the use of oil and fire. -
Thomas opened an industrial park to figure out how to spread electricity to the public. -
Edison moved across the east, helping cities to install electricity for the people. -
Thomas Edison merged his electric company with The Thomson-Houston Company to form General Electric. -
Thomas began working on a way to store energy for use when electricity wasn't available. He eventually came up with the battery. -
The country dimmed their lights in his honor on the day of his funeral