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