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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. File:Ad for Thomas Edison's Kinetophone, 1913.jpeg - Wikipedia

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    English: Advertisement for Thomas Edison's "Kinetophone", his early synchronized system for presenting sound with projected films; published in The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), January 25, 1913, p. 372; ad headed "TALKING PICTURES / A Fact! / A Reality!"; includes oval-framed portrait of inventor Thomas A. Edison; American Talking ...

  4. Thomas Edison Film Festival - Wikipedia

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    Edison's Black Maria The Hoboken Historical Museum hosts and is a venue for the TEFF. The festival was originally known as the Black Maria Film Festival.Its name was tribute to Thomas Edison’s development of the motion picture at his laboratory complex (now Thomas Edison National Historical Park, in West Orange, New Jersey), which was the site of the world's first film studio, erected in ...

  5. File:A day with Thomas A. Edison.webm - Wikipedia

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    English: A Day with Thomas A. Edison is a 1922 american silent documentary film on Thomas Edison. Українська: «День з Томасом А. Едісоном» — американський німий документальний фільм про Томаса Едісона 1922 року.

  6. 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 ...

  7. File:Patent by T. A. Edison for a Electric Vote-Recorder ...

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

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    Collecter, Ward Harris, holds a talking doll with a metal torso that was invented by Thomas Edison, in San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 9, 1949. Harris holds in his other hand the inside mechanicals of ...

  9. Edison Records - Wikipedia

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    Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877.After patenting the invention and benefiting from the publicity and acclaim it received, Edison and his laboratory turned their attention to the commercial development of electric lighting, playing no further role in the development of the phonograph for nearly a decade.