| The list below is a sampling of web sites that supply information about Thomas Alva Edison. We hope to expand this list as our studies take us throughout the Internet. If you have any additions for us, please contact thesite webmaster and the site will be added. | |
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| The Edison Papers: Rutgers University | The Thomas A. Edison Papers is a documentary editing project sponsored by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, and the New Jersey Historical Commission and supported by over 60 public and private foundations, corporations, and individuals. |
| Edison and Ford | Welcome to the Edison & Ford Winter Estates Website. Look to us as your source for information on the lives, friendships, inventions and fascinating history behind two of the worlds most remarkable men. We invite you to visit the estates of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford in the heart of the City of Fort Myers, Florida, the City of Palms. Experience the time of their lives. |
| Edison National Historic Site | Edison's improvements to the telegraph and the telephone placed him on the cutting edge of communication technology at the turn of the Twentieth Century. If Edison were living today, he would be interested in both the Internet and the World Wide Web, a technology that can now make the legacy of the world's most famous inventor available to you. |
| Edison Experts' Quiz: Edison Elementary School | Edison experts, we challenge you to test your Thomas Edison knowledge. |
| T. A. Edison & The Electric Lamp | One of the outstanding geniuses in the history of technology, Thomas Edison earned patents for more than a thousand inventions, including the incandescent electric lamp, the phonograph, the carbon telephone transmitter, and the motion-picture projector. In addition, he created the world's first industrial research laboratory. |
| The Wizard of Menlo Park | Like Ben Franklin, Thomas Alva Edison was both a scientist and an inventor. Born in 1847, Edison would see tremendous change take place in his lifetime. He was also to be responsible for making many of those changes occur. |
| Edison Birthplace Museum | Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb, and many other devices that make our lives fuller and simpler, was born in Milan, Ohio, in 1847. The Edison Birthplace Museum features a collection of rare Edisonia, including examples of many of Edison's early inventions, documents, and family mementos. |
| Inventing Entertainment: The Movies of Edison @ The Library of Congress | Prolific inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) has had a profound impact on modern life. In his lifetime, the "Wizard of Menlo Park" patented 1,093 inventions, including the phonograph, the kinetograph (a motion picture camera), and the kinetoscope (a motion picture viewer). Edison managed to become not only a renowned inventor, but also a prominent manufacturer and businessman through the merchandising of his inventions. The collections in the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division contain an extraordinary range of the surviving products of Edison's entertainment inventions and industries. This site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles. Cylinder sound recordings will be added to this site in the near future. In addition, histories are given of Edison's involvement with motion pictures and sound recordings, as well as a special page focusing on the life of the great inventor. |
| Edison National Historic Site: National Park System | For more than forty years, the laboratory created by Thomas Alva Edison in West Orange, New Jersey, had enormous impact on the lives of millions of people worldwide. Out of the West Orange laboratories came the motion picture camera, vastly improved phonographs, sound recordings, silent and sound movies and the nickel-iron alkaline electric storage battery. |
| Edison Kids: Energy Heroes | He designed over a thousand inventions: the simple light bulb, the phonograph, the movie projector. Without these things, lights wouldn't work, CD players wouldn't have been developed, movie theaters couldn't show movies. Gosh! |
| T. A. Edison - American Inventor | Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. With only three months of formal education he became one of the greatest inventors and industrial leaders in history. Edison obtained 1,093 United States patents, the most issued to any individual. |
| Thomas Alva Edison: Spectrum Biographies | In his lifetime, Thomas Alva Edison profoundly affected the technology of modern society. The American inventor was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Edison, Jr. and Nancy Elliot Edison. When Edison was 7 years old, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, after his father hired on as a carpenter at the Fort Gratiot military post. |
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