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Edison became a train boy, where he learned to deal with heavy machines.
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Edison became an apprentice telegraph manager for the train company.
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Edison quit his job to focus full time on inventing and entrepreneurship.
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Edison moved to New York to work with Frank L. Pope.
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Edison developed the Electric voting machine.
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Edison received his first patent for his invention of the electric voting machine.
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Edison created the screw-thread unison which was primarily used for nearly a century (until 1960).
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Edison invented one of his more known inventions, the Phonograph.
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Thomas Edison's most well known invention was the incadescent lightbulb.
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In 1990 Edison released the movie camera, it was used to create the first videos, and movies.
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Edison was awarded his first medal, the Albert Medal, by the Royal Society of Arts or the RSA.
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Edisons last award was the Congressional Gold Medal.
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Edison received his 1,093 patent for a holder for electroplating processes
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