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Edison Submits his last patent application for "Holder for Article to be Electroplated" |
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Thomas Edison Copyrights The Great Train Robbery, the first film to tell a story. |
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Thomas Edison invents his version of the Battery. |
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A U.S. Court of Appeals rules that Edison did not invent the movie camera, and could not exericse monopoly power over its use. |
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Edison completes construction of the first motion picture studio, called the "Black Maria," in West Orange, NJ. |
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Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera. |
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U.S. patent office rules that Edison's patent for the incandescent bulb was based on the work of William Sawyer and was invalid. |
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Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey. |
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Thomas Edison invents a workable incandescent lamp in his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratories. |
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The Edison Electric Light Company is founded by Thomas Edison. |
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Thomas A Edison demonstrates his gramophone.
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Thomas Edison records 'Mary had a little lamb' onto a cylinder wrapped with tin foil on his newly completed prototype hand-cranked phonograph at Menlo Park, NJ. This is the earliest recording of a human voice. |
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US Inventor Thomas Alva Edison announces his creation of a machine that can record sound, which he dubs the phonograph. |
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Thomas Edison files for his first patent for an electrical vote recorder to tabulate votes in the U.S. Congress. |
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Thomas Alva Edison is born in Milan, OH. |
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