Thomas A. Edison

Known for ProductionBorn 1847-02-11Died 1931-10-18Milan, Ohio, USA

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. He established the first industrial research laboratory. Edison was raised in the American Midwest; early in his career he worked as a telegraph operator, which inspired some of his earliest inventions. In 1876, he established his first laboratory facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where many of his early inventions were developed. He later established a botanic laboratory in Fort Myers, Florida in collaboration with businessmen Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, and a laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey that featured the world's first film studio, the Black Maria. He was a prolific inventor, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as patents in other countries. Edison married twice and fathered six children. He died in 1931 of the complications of diabetes.Read more

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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships

Rescue - Resuscitation

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

MGM Parade

A Day with Thomas A. Edison

Her Redemption

The Comet

Edison: The Invention of the Movies

Parsifal

Starting for the Fire

The Extraordinary Voyage

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History 101

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America

Julius Caesar

A Minstrel Show

Lucia di Lammermoor

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Murnau, Borzage and Fox

Horizon

The Film That Was Lost

Skiing Scene in Quebec

The Golden Twenties

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Naqoyqatsi

Cutting and Canaling Ice

Alciede Capitane

East Side Drive, No. 1

American Falls, from Incline R.R.

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

Admiral Cigarette

Nursery Favorites

A Trip to Mars

The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

Frankenstein

Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

Arrival of the Governor General, Lord Minto, at Quebec

Pan-American Exposition by Night

Annie Oakley

Blacksmithing Scene

Chicago-Michigan Football Game

Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River

New York Police Parade, June 1st, 1899

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Bicycle Trick Riding, No. 2