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Birth of the inventor
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He was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. -
Marriage!
Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell (1855–1884), whom he had met two months earlier; she was an employee at one of his shops. They had three children:
Marion Estelle Edison (1873–1965), nicknamed "Dot"
Thomas Alva Edison, Jr. (1876–1935), nicknamed "Dash"
William Leslie Edison (1878–1937) Inventor, graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, 1900. -
Electric light
The first successful test was it lasted 13.5 hours. -
Electric power distribution
Edison founded the Edison Illuminating Company. The company established the first investor-owned electric utility in 1882 on Pearl Street Station, New York City. -
Lost!
Mary Edison died at age 29 of unknown causes: possibly from a brain tumor or a morphine overdose. -
Marraige again!
at the age of thirty-nine, Edison married the 20-year-old Mina Miller (1866–1947). She was the daughter of the inventor Lewis Miller, co-founder of the Chautauqua Institution and a benefactor of Methodist charities. They also had three children together:
Madeleine Edison (1888–1979),
Charles Edison (1890–1969), Governor of New Jersey (1941 – 1944),
Theodore Edison (1898–1992) -
