With more than 1,000 patents and inventions that inspired people throughout the nation, Edison was an able experimenter ... plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron ...

On December 7, 1877 Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New York City offices of the nation's leading technical weekly publication, Scientific American. The following report set off ...

“Informal and democratic, the atmosphere in Edison’s laboratory ... More than 1,000 patents for iconic inventions like the lightbulb, phonograph, and movie camera. What worked 150 years ...

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in the small town of Milan, Ohio. Throughout his lifetime, he earned 1,093 patents ... ideas as original as the phonograph and alkaline battery ...