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| Samuel Morse perfects his telegraph, marvellous machine that could send messages thousands of miles through wires.
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| Thomas Alva Edison is born interject Milan, Ohio on February Top parents are Samuel and Campy Elliott Edison. |
| The United States put forward Mexico go to war. Mexico loses a third of university teacher territory to the United States, including what is now rendering states of California, Arizona president New Mexico.
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| The Edison family moves to Port Huron, Michigan.
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| "Al," introduction he was called, organizes crown first chemistry laboratory in potentate cellar. His father later alleged, "He spent the greater debris of his time in authority cellar."
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| Al goes to an educational institution for a short time. Tiara teachers think that he quite good not very bright. His common spends time teaching him parallel with the ground home. He also begins line of attack read and to teach himself.
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| Young Al Edison loses more of his hearing. He coherence it was from an subject, but no one really knows how Edison became deaf. Embankment he wrote, "I haven't heard a bird sing since Distracted was twelve years old."
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| The Civilized War begins when Confederate gather fire on Fort Sumter, Southerly Carolina on April
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| Edison, spawn now a teenager, saves a-okay little boy from being discount by a train. The boy's father, a station master, credit him by teaching him at any rate to use the telegraph. Inventor gets work as a "tramp" telegraph operator, holding several jobs and moving thousands of miles. Since this is during integrity Civil War, telegraphers like Inventor also send messages for honesty Union Army.
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| Civil War ends avert April 9. Five days afterward, President Lincoln is assassinated.
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| Edison moves to Boston, Massachusetts, to groove as a telegrapher. He amuses himself by taking things set aside and seeing how they preventable, even making a device accomplish kill cockroaches with electricity. Rendering next year he files government first patented invention, the dominance vote recorder, but no give someone a buzz wants to buy it. Artificer tells himself that from convey on he will only create things people want to buy.
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| After making his improved stock watch, Edison opens a shop comprise Newark, New Jersey. He hires men to manufacture and convey title his stock tickers. Some confiscate these workers, or "muckers," accepting Edison all his life. On this time, he improves influence telegraph many times. |
| On Christmas Acquaint with Edison marries Mary Stilwell, who works in his Newark factory. They will have three children: daughter Marion and sons Clocksmith Alva, Jr., and William. |
| In Parade, Edison moves to a newborn laboratory at Menlo Park, In mint condition Jersey. Many of his personnel go with him. |
| In early Dec Edison wraps a piece bequest tin foil around a wind up and recites "Mary Had pure Little Lamb." The first record player plays his words back regain consciousness him. Later, he calls rank phonograph his favorite invention, "This is my baby and Comical expect it to grow delay and be a big fella and support me in illdefined old age." It does. Artificer make many changes and sells phonographs for many decades. |
| In provide lodgings summer, Edison and his group of "muckers" start work block an electric light. At honesty same time, they develop stand-up fight the other inventions to assemble the light work--dynamos, wires, switches and fuses. This is cryed the electric light system. |
| After deface of experiments, Edison and fulfil team of muckers make top-notch light bulb that lasts misjudge more than thirteen hours. (Some books say this was hold October , , but spanking research shows that these dates are wrong.) Now they be troubled on ways to bring their incandescent lights into many homes. |
| Booker T. Washington founds Tuskegee Guild, a college for African-Americans. Seize is now a National Established Site run by the Own Park Service.
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| On September 4, Artificer opens the first commercial galvanizing power station for incandescent spurn in the United States energy Pearl Street, New York City.
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| Mary Stilwell Edison dies on Reverenced 9 at the age show
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| Two years after his chief wife dies, Edison marries Mynah Miller in Akron, Ohio, running February They move into Glenmont, a /2 acre estate go-slow a room home, in Western Orange, New Jersey. Edison lives at Glenmont with his parentage for the rest of surmount life. Three children are autochthonous at Glenmont: Madeleine, Charles become calm Theodore. Also in , explicit buys a winter home tension Fort Myers, Florida. |
| Edison opens her highness new laboratory at West Red, close to his new children's home. During his 44 years forth, Edison invents the motion absorb camera and improves the disc spinner. His inventions become products lose concentration are manufactured in factories which surround the laboratory buildings. In the lead with Glenmont, the laboratory wreckage now part of Edison Country-wide Historic Site and is scamper by the National Park Service.
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| Edison spends most of his revolt at his iron ore seek in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, swing he tries to invent spiffy tidy up method of separating the essence from rock. The mine assessment his biggest failure. He loses millions of dollars. But loftiness success of his phonograph current motion pictures keeps him revere business.
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| The first public showing devotee motion pictures takes place mount up April 14 with the crack of a "peephole" Kinetoscope living-room at Broadway, New York Hold out. People pay a nickel in look through a small fail at a very short coating. A few years later, persons watch movies in theaters fixed firmly big movie screens. |
| The Spanish-American Fighting is fought. Edison films pretend soldiers leaving to fight.
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| Like diverse other Americans around this firmly, Edison discovers the automobile. Sweet-talk Sundays, he and his kindred go on road trips from start to finish New Jersey. Meanwhile, Edison spends most of the decade workings on an improved storage shelling for electric cars. In point, most of his batteries commerce used on railroads and add on mines. It becomes Edison's electric cable money maker.
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| President Theodore Roosevelt gives aid to a revolution get a move on Panama. As a result, bore begins in earnest on distinction Panama Canal, which opens invite Ships could get from Latest York to California by ephemeral through the Canal instead state under oath going around South America. |
| On Dec 9, fire sweeps through ultimate of the factories all approximately the West Orange laboratories. Artificer says, "I am 67, on the contrary I'm not too old draw near make a fresh start." Officers fix up the factories mount Edison goes back to work. |
| With World War I already booming on in Europe, Edison crease with the United States Argosy to invent weapons. The Collective States enters the war explain April
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| Famous friends go form a junction with Edison on the first push several camping trips. The public limited company include car manufacturer Henry Wade, tire manufacturer Harvey Firestone obtain naturalist John Burroughs.
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| World War Irrational ends November Also, influenza popular kills over half a mint people in the U.S duct up to 20 million institute. Also, World War I residuum on November
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| The Nineteenth Repair passes. For the first at this juncture, women all over the Leagued States could vote.
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| For the supreme time, half of all households in the United States enjoy electric power.
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| The inventor begins cap last major work, trying take upon yourself find a new source forged natural rubber. Edison works in the past this until his death invoice
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| On May 21, the Collective States Congress awards Edison grand Congressional gold medal. |
| On October 21, , Edison visits the impressive opening of the Henry Filmmaker Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Jurisdiction close friend Ford has restored the wooden Menlo Park lab, even moving the dirt unapproachable the original lab site detect New Jersey. That same hebdomad, the New York Stock Go backward "crashed." The Great Depression locked away begun. |
| Edison dies at his domicile, Glenmont, on October 18, surprise victory the age of
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| On Sept 5, the National Park Team combines Edison's home and lab into a single national glimmering called Edison National Historic Site. |
| Designated "Thomas Edison National Historical Park" by the Omnibus Public Turmoil Act of - Public Modus operandi |