| I could become a cartographer or a world expert on Thomas Edison or learn how to make wattle and daub huts. |
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| In the early 1900's Thomas Edison developed the alkaline cell using iron and nickelic oxide. |
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| He was so successful that he was judged to be third behind Thomas Edison in the number of useful patents he had developed. |
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| Many thanks must go then to Thomas Edison for ruining the whole hibernation ideal with his accursed light-bulbs. |
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| Starting with footage shot by Thomas Edison, this magnificent compilation takes us from dances like the cakewalk to the jitterbug. |
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| Born near London, England, Insull learned stenography, emigrated to America, and landed a job in 1880 as the personal secretary of Thomas Edison. |
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| The first attempts to modernize the process were made by Thomas Edison and scientists working with American inventor. |
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| Also today in 1877, Thomas Edison announced the invention of the phonograph following successful experiments recording sound waves on a tinfoil cylinder. |
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| It took Thomas Edison many years and thousands of failed attempts to invent the light bulb. |
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| The new system by inventor Thomas Edison was designed to function similar to gas lighting. |
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| There is also evidence that in 1888 he shared with Thomas Edison some thoughts on combining a new projection system he had invented the zoopraxiscope with Edison's phonograph. |
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| The story I've always heard, as a Teslaphile, says that the concept was invented by Thomas Edison to scare people away from alternating current. |
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| He saw the alternating current was the only feasible way of transmitting electricity over long distances, and was maligned and defamed by Thomas Edison, who tirelessly promoted his failed concept of DC transmission. |
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| One of their first achievements was to persuade Thomas Edison to scale down his heavy nickel-iron alkaline battery to a size small enough to be worn on a miner's belt. |
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| This attempt, using an engine purchased from Thomas Edison, failed, the story goes, because the power source, a third rail in the ground, shorted out in heavy rains. |
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| Thomas Edison was more on target when he forecast some of the possible uses for the phonograph, which he invented in 1878: music, dictation, and talking toys. |
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| Did you know... after they patented and tested the light bulb in 1874, two Canadian inventors sold the patent to Thomas Edison, and the rest is history. |
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| Nearly 130 years after Thomas Edison invented it, the world may be on the brink of saying 'thank you, and goodnight' to the incandescent electric light bulb. |
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| He is most famous for inventing an incandescent light bulb before its invention by the American Thomas Edison. |
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| Thomas Edison is best known for inventing the lightbulb, but he also invented the phonograph. |
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| Youngsters will learn that as a boy inventor Thomas Edison nearly perished when he fell into a grain elevator because he want to see how the elevator worked. |
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