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Thomas Edison National Historical Park |
West Orange |
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Edison Storage Battery Company Building |
West Orange |
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Thomas Edison Winter Estate |
Fort Myers |
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| 1847/02/11 |
Thomas Edison is born in Milan, Ohio |
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Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace |
Milan |
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Thomas Edison's Birthday |
| 1854/00/00 |
Thomas A Edison home, 1854 to 1863 |
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Thomas A Edison Boyhood Homesite |
Port Huron |
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| 1859/00/00 |
Thomas Edison sell newspapers and snacks (news butcher) out of the Fort Gratiot depot, 1859-1863. |
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Grand Trunk Western Railroad Depot |
Port Huron |
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| 1862/08/00 |
Thomas Edison saves a three-year-old boy from being hit by a railroad box car. |
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Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Mount Clemens Station |
Mount Clemens |
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| 1869/00/00 |
Thomas Edison moves to New York City where he continues working on inventions related to the telegraph. Short on funds, Edison trades tea leaves for a breakfast of baked apple dumplings which will remain his favorite food. |
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| 1876/00/00 |
Edison establishes a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. As the world's first organized research and development site, Edison and his staff will create 400 of his most important inventions here. Edison fondly nicknames it 'Invention Factory'. |
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Thomas A Edison Memorial Tower |
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| 1876/07/00 |
Thomas Edison exhibits his telegraph at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. |
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Centennial Exposition |
| 1877/11/00 |
Menlo Park is the Birthplace of Recorded Sound. |
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Thomas A Edison Memorial Tower |
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| 1878/07/00 |
Thomas Edison's megaphone and phonograph are exhibited at the Exposition Universelle. |
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1878 Exposition Universelle |
| 1879/10/00 |
Edison invents the first practical incandescent lamp-light bulb. |
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Thomas A Edison Memorial Tower |
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| 1880/01/27 |
Thomas Edison receives a patent for an incandescent lamp, soon to be a commercially viable electric light bulb. |
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Thomas A Edison Memorial Tower |
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Invention of Public Electricity Supply |
| 1881/00/00 |
Thomas Edison demonstrates the benefits of electric lights in London. |
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Invention of Public Electricity Supply |
| 1882/09/04 |
At the Drexel, Morgan and Co headquarters (lost) at 23 Wall Street, Thomas Edison switches on 600 electric lights throughout the building, shining a light on the future of illumination. |
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J P Morgan and Co Building |
New York City |
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Invention of Public Electricity Supply |
| 1888/00/00 |
Thomas Edison inspects the electric lighting installation at the Hotel Del Coronado. |
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Hotel Del Coronado |
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| 1889/09/10 |
Thomas Edison visits the tower Eiffel Tower. |
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Eiffel Tower |
Paris |
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1889 Exposition Universelle |
| 1904/00/00 |
1,090 room Bellevue-Stratford Hotel opens featuring a ballroom, a marble and hand-worked iron elliptical staircase, delicate lighting fixtures designed by Thomas Edison and stained glass transoms, Venetian windows and sky-lights by Alfred Godwin. |
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Bellevue Stratford Hotel |
Philadelphia, PA |
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| 1908/08/13 |
Thomas A Edison patents a method to construct homes of concrete formed with one continuous pour using cast iron molds. |
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Vinkenbaan 14 |
Santpoort-Zuid |
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History of Prefabricated Homes |
| 1920/11/17 |
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone camp with Burroughs at Slabsides. Burroughs cooks dinner, Brigand Steak - chunks of beef alternated with bacon on a stick, grilled over an open flame. |
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Slabsides (John Burroughs Cabin) |
West Park |
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| 1924/08/20 |
Industrialist Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Russell Firestone, stand by as President Coolidge signs an old oak sap bucket at the Wayside Inn. |
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Longfellow's Wayside Inn |
Sudbury, MA |
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| 1926/05/13 |
All local schools are closed at noon to allow children to take part in the cornerstone ceremony of Edison Park School. Dignitaries Thomas Alva Edison, and his wife, Mina, plant a Cuban laurel tree to mark the occasion. |
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Edison Park Elementary School |
Fort Myers |
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| 1930/09/03 |
Thomas Edison drives an Lackawanna Railroad, New Jersey Transit predecessor, electric train from Hoboken Terminal to South Orange station. |
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South Orange Station |
South Orange |
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Invention of Electric Railway |