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Thomas Alva Edison
Inventing the Electric Age
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1847,Thomas Edison is born in Milan,Ohio on Febuary 11
1847
1854,His family moves to Port Huron,Michigan
1854
1859,He begins a job as a candy buthcher on the Grand Trunk Railroad
1859
1863,Begins work as itinerant telegrapher
1863
1868,He takes a job in the Western Union office in Boston
1868
1869,He quits his job in Western Union to become an inventor
1869
1870,Forms a partnership with William Unger to make stock printers
1870
1871,He marries Mary Stilwell
1871
1873,February 18, Marion Estelle Edison is born in Newark,NJ
1873
1874,He invents the quadruplex telegraph
1874
1876,Moves to Menlo Park,NJ
1876
1877,Invents the carbon-button telephone transmitter and the phonograph
1877
1878,October 26, William Leslie Edison is born in Menlo Park,NJ
1878
1879,He invents an incandecent lamp
1879
1880,He perfects a system for electrical distribution
1880
1881,Moves to New York City to begin on an electrical distribution system
1881
1884,His beloved wife,Mary,dies
1884
1886,He maries Mina Miller and buys a house in West Orange,NJ
1886
1887,Resumes work on phonograph
1887
1888,May 31, Madeline Edison is born in West Orange,NJ
1888
1889,Begins building the kinetograph and kinetoscope
1889
1890,August 3, Charles Edison is born in West Orange,NJ
1890
1892,General Electric forms and Edison's ties to the electric industry weaken
1892
1894,He forms the National Phonograph Company
1894
1896,Invents new spring-motor phonograph
1896
1898,July 10, Theodore Miller Edison is born in West Orange,NJ
1898
1910, Merges his companies to form Thomas A. Edison Inc.
1910
1912,Tries to create an auto ignition system for Henry Ford
1912
1915,He was named chairman of Naval Consulting Board
1915
1926,He retires as head of his company,Thomas A. Edison Inc.
1926
1929,He attends Light's Golden Jubilee in Dearborn,Michigan
1929
1931,Thomas Edison dies at his home on October 18
1931
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