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Thomas Edison was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Thomas Edison was the seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison.
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A phonograph is a turnable device that can record and reproduce sound.
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The quadruplex telegraph is a type of electrical telegraph that allows multiple signals to be received on the same wire at the same time.
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The carbon microphone is a device that converts sound to an electrical audio signal.
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Thomas Edison's electric pen was made to duplicate handwritten documents and was the first electric-motor-driven office appliance.
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The tasimeter is a device to measure infrared radiation.
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The phonomotor is a device that measures the mechanical force of sound.
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The incandescent light bulb was a wire with a glass sphere containing it and the wire gets heated up until it glows.
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The electric power station was made so people at home could get electricity for their broadcasting systems and their TV’s.
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Thomas Edison was married to Mary Stilwell Edison and in 1884 Mary sadly passed away possibly from a brain tumor.
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A mimeograph machine was a duplicating machine that worked by putting ink through a stencil onto the paper.
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The Kinetograph was used to take a series of photographs of humans or moving objects. It was important because it was one of the first objects that could take a photograph of a human.
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The Kinetoscope was designed for someone to view a show through a peephole. It was important because it made it possible for people nowadays to be able to make the object that today is a TV.
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For his last two years, a series of ailments caused his health to decline even more until he lapsed into a coma on October 14, 1931.