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  2. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).

  3. Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace - Wikipedia

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    The upstairs attic level includes two more bedrooms. The house is furnished with Edison family artifacts. [2] The house was built and designed by Samuel Edison in 1841, on land purchased by his wife, Nancy Elliott Edison. His son Thomas was born here in 1847, and it remained the family home until 1854, when they moved to Port Huron, Michigan.

  4. Young Tom Edison - Wikipedia

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    The film was the first of a complementary pair of Edison biopics that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released in 1940. Edison, the Man, starring Spencer Tracy, followed two months later, completing the two-part story of Edison's life. [1] The film had a special preview on February 10, 1940 in Port Huron, Michigan, the place where Thomas Edison spent his ...

  5. Thomas Edison Conducted the First Job Interview in 1921 ... - AOL

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    Getty By Jacquelyn Smith The job interview was born in 1921, when Thomas Edison created a written test to evaluate job candidates' knowledge. Since then, the process has come a long way. "As the ...

  6. Charles Edison - Wikipedia

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    Charles Edison was born on August 3, 1890, at Glenmont, the Edison family home in West Orange, New Jersey. He was Thomas Edison's fifth child and second from his marriage to Mina Miller . He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in 1909.

  7. Hear Thomas Edison's talking doll that scared kids in 1890

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    Thomas Edison invented a lot of things, including the doll version of the day after tomorrow. In the 1800's Edison figured out a way to record sound and he brought that technology to dolls.

  8. Milan, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Milan (/ ˈ m aɪ l ən / MY-lən) [5] is a village in Erie and Huron counties in the U.S. state of Ohio.The population was 1,371 at the 2020 census.It is best known as the birthplace and childhood home of Thomas Edison.

  9. William Kennedy Dickson - Wikipedia

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    At age 19 in 1879, William Dickson wrote a letter to American inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison seeking employment. He was turned down. That same year Dickson, his mother, and two sisters moved from Britain to Virginia. [4] In 1883 he was finally hired to work at Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. In 1888, Edison conceived of ...