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Thomas Alva Eison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

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  • This "Wizard of Menlo Park" said, "I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill"
  • The first movie close-up was of Fred Ott sneezing & was filmed in this man's West Orange, N.J. studio
  • According to Guinness, this inventor holds the record for the most patents with 1,093
  • This inventor who never attended college has a college named for him in Trenton, New Jersey
  • Shortly after establishing a lab in Menlo Park, N.J., he invented the carbon telephone transmitter
  • "125th Anniversary of the Light Bulb" is on the reverse of the coin honoring him
  • By 1881 his Menlo Park home had been set up with a complete electric lighting system
  • In the 1880s this inventor reduced the size of a phonograph so that it could fit inside a doll & make it "talk"
  • In 1882 Edward Johnson, a partner of this inventor, put the first string of glass lights on a Christmas tree
  • He once said, "I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light"
  • He had laboratories at Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey
  • In 1877, this inventor, not Bell, designed a transmitter for the telephone allowing better clarity & sound
  • On February 11 happy 163rd birthday to this great American inventor
  • The press dubbed him "The Wizard of Menlo Park", the site of his New Jersey workshop
  • In 1891 he devised the kinetoscope, a device you looked into to watch moving pictures
  • Inducted in 1973, he "earned patents for more than a thousand inventions, including... the phonograph"
  • In December 1877 editors of Sci. American checked out his cylinder phonograph; the sentimental value alone is huge!
  • Menlo Park is part of this New Jersey township whose seal features a tower with a light bulb at the top
  • The Black Maria was this inventor's West Orange, New Jersey movie studio
  • His lesser-known inventions include a vote-recording machine & the mimeograph machine
  • Ex-Yale president Benno Schmidt chairs this inventive company that manages & improves schools
  • In 1926 the queen of Romania flipped on the new 100,000-horsepower generator of New York this, now Consolidated this
  • In 1882 this U.S. inventor opened a steam-powered electricity generating station
  • He listed himself in Who's Who as an "electrician"--guess inventing the incandescent bulb qualifies

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