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  Thomas Edison is born in Milan, Ohio
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  Thomas Edison moved to New York and developed his first invention, an improved stock sricker.
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  created his first small labratory in new jersey
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  acquires reputation as a first rate inventor
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  Married 16 year old Mary Stilwell
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  Gets a patent for the lightbulb
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  Mary dies of a suspected brain tumore
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  build a magnetic iron ore processing plant
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  applied for the last of his 1,093 patents
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  Thomas Edison dies in west orange, new jersey