On February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio Samuel and Nancy Edison gave birth to their seventh and last child, which they named Thomas

As his business in making stock tickers and telegraphs is running smoothly, he devotes his life back to inventing. He continues to improve the telegraph, producing a duplex telegraph, where both sides of the message could “talk” at the same time. He applied for the patent immediately. The next year his first daughter is born, which he named Marion Estelle. He continues to improve the telegraph, making a quadraplex telegraph, which can connect a network of people where they can all talk at the same time. There was a dispute over who was the rightful owner of this new telegraph between Western Union and Law’s Gold and Stock. Western Union wins, and that is why they are so big now. In 1875 he ends all ties with anything to do with telegraphy. The following year, at the age of 29, he had his first son; named Thomas Alva Jr. He then moved his family to Menlo Park, the place where he would become the most known. He teamed up with rich people that would support his inventions, and created the Edison Electric Light Company, which is now known as General Electric. His next huge invention would also be his favorite out of all. The phonograph was created in 1877, his first invention created at Menlo Park. He wanted to create a device that would record his voice, and then be able to play it back to him. He found that using a thin piece of metal, he could scratch his voice wavelengths onto the metal, and then be able to go over that piece, and thus play back his voice. On December 7 of the same year, he unveiled his new invention at the Scientific American office in New York. He gained international popularity within weeks. Soon everyone wanted to see and hear this new marvel. With all the money he gains from his phonograph, he begins to try and improve on the incandescent light bulb. This would be the invention that he gains the most praise for and is the one that he is most known for. (http://edison.rutgers.edu/)

He continued with his experiments, through his wife’s death in 1884. In 1886, he remarried to Mina Miller. He then decides to start a new life, so to speak, and buys land in West Orange, New Jersey to build his new house. This site would later be known as the official Edison National Historic Site. In 1893 he builds the first “movie studio” named the Black Maria. He debuts his kinetoscope; using shadows to display an image moving in a little box with movable parts. He then improves that and creates a projecting kinetoscope, which paved the way for the motion picture industry. He would continue with his life, creating an Edison Storage Battery Company, which was responsible for his new invention of an alkaline storage battery. Edison wouldn’t make any other real discoveries after the battery. He only improved on the ones he had. In 1928, he received an honorary medal from Congress, but he would only get to enjoy it for a shor

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