Thomas Edison, Inventor

By Grayson Silverman

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Thomas Edison was born

February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931

Edison gets his first job

1862 - 1869

Edison files his first invention

1868 - 1868

Edison gets married

Dec 25 1871 - Aug 9 1884

his wifes death was on August 9 1884

Edison opens Menlo Park lab

1876 - 1887

creates carbon button telephone transmitter

1877 - 1877

Edison creates cylinder phonograph

1877 - 1877

Edison creates Incandescent lightbulb

1879 - 1879

Edison marries Mina Millar

1886 - 1886

Edison creates Edison General Electric corperation

1889 - 1889

Edison meets Henry Ford

1897 - 1897

Edison invents self starters for cars built by Henry Ford

1913 - 1913

word war 1

1914 - 1918

Edison Awarded congressional medal of honer

1928 - 1928