Thomas Edison (1847-1930) Invents the Light Bulb |
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| Historical Figures > Historical Figures with "E" Names > Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
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 Thomas Alva Edison was born in the small Ohio town of Milan on February 11, 1847.He was a prodigious inventor and cunning businessman. In his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, he designed a great number of things. It was in 1879 that he filed a patent for an electric light bulb using a carbon filament (U.S. patent 223,898). Click here to enlarge the image above. We have a coloring page with handwriting practice featuring the above image; click here. |
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