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Below is a list of Edison patents. Thomas Edison was an inventor who accumulated 2,332 [1] patents worldwide for his inventions. 1,093 of Edison's patents were in the United States, but other patents were approved in countries around the globe.
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation , mass communication , sound recording , and motion pictures. [ 4 ]
Thomas Alva Edison invents the fuse: 1893: During the Fourth International Conference of Electricians in Chicago, electrical units were defined 1893: English physicist J. J. Thomson invented waveguides. 1894: Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi begins developing the first radio wave based wireless telegraphy communication system [6] [7] 1895
Thomas Edison invented the cylindrical phonograph in 1877 and was looking for ways to commercialize it. In 1888, Edison developed a china doll equipped with a cylindrical phonograph with pre ...
A photo of the original purchase order from Thomas Edison to Corning for the glass encasement for Edison’s lightbulb in 1880. CEO Wendell Weeks keeps the purchase order framed in his office as a ...
Edison would take full credit for the invention, but the historiographical consensus is that the title of creator can hardly go to one man: While Edison seems to have conceived the idea and initiated the experiments, Dickson apparently performed the bulk of the experimentation, leading most modern scholars to assign Dickson with the major ...
Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), U.S. – phonograph, commercially practical incandescent light bulb, etc. Pehr Victor Edman (1916–1977), Sweden – Edman degradation for Protein sequencing Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925–2013), UK – In vitro fertilisation
Thomas Edison: 1847 Electric lighting, motion pictures, phonograph [4] 1974 Alexander Graham Bell: 1847 Telephone [5] 1974 Eli Whitney: 1765 Cotton gin [6] 1974 Walter Brattain : 1902 Transistor [7] 1974 William Shockley: 1910 Transistor [8] 1974 John Bardeen * 1908 Transistor [9] 1975 Nikola Tesla: 1856 Induction motor [10] 1975 Orville Wright ...