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• The camping trips of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone and John Burroughs. ... This is just one of the kinds of things that happened during the years earlier this century (1916 - 1924) when Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone ñ accompanied in the early years by naturalist John Burroughs ñ went out on annual summer camping junkets which took them through most of Eastern America and on which, on any given day or evening, they never knew just what route they would be taking or where they would end up. ... Edison and Ford shared the circumstance of having had almost no "formal" education at all: Ford, 15 years Edison's junior, worked as a youngster, as a machinist and engineer for the Edison Company, and in I930, just before the great inventor's death, Ford honored him with a memoir, Edison As I Knew, Him. Among the astounding 1,300 patents secured by the Wizard of Menlo Park was the process for the production of rubber from American plants, a process intriguing to Firestone, who, like Edison, had been born in a tiny town in northeast Ohio, hard by the big cities of Akron and Cleveland, where he would build his empire and which was just a fast ferry ride across Lake Erie from Ford's own empireñland of Detroit. Eventually, Edison, Ford and Firestone all acquired property and built homes just blocks from each other in Fort Myers, Florida, thus establishing the lower Gulf Coast as one of the favored retirement locations in the country. ... The seed for the annual expeditions was planted by Edison during the I9I5 Pan Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. ...

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• Thomas Alva Edison .
• In his lifetime, Thomas Alva Edison profoundly affected the technology of modern society. ... He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Edison, Jr. and Nancy Elliot Edison. When Edison was 7 years old, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, after his father hired on as a carpenter at the Fort Gratiot military post. ...
• Edison entered school in Port Huron, but his teachers considered him to be a dull student. Because of hearing problems, Edison had difficulty following the lessons and his school attendance became sporadic. Nevertheless, Edison became a voracious reader and at age 10, he set up a laboratory in his basement. ...
• When his mother could not longer stand the smell of his chemistry lab, Edison took a job as a trainboy on the Grand Trunk Railway and established a new lab in an empty freight car. ... Edison also began printing a weekly newspaper, which he called the Grand Trunk Herald. ...
• While Edison was working for the railroad, something happened that changed the course of his career. Edison saved the life of a station official's child, who had fallen onto the tracks of an oncoming train. For his bravery, the boy's father taught Edison how to use the telegraph. ...
• From 1862 to 1868, Edison worked as a roving telegrapher in the Midwest, the South, Canada, and New England. ... By 1869, Edison's inventions, including the duplex telegraph and message printer, were progressing so well, he left telegraphy and began a career of full-time inventing and entrepreneurship. ...
• Edison moved to New York City and within a year, he was able to open a workshop in Newark, New Jersey. He produced the Edison Universal Stock Printer, the automatic telegraph, the quadruplex, as well as other printing telegraphs, while working out of Newark. During this same period, Edison married Mary Stilwell. ...

• Thomas Edison's favorite invention was the phonograph. ... The first words that Edison recorded were "Mary Had a Little Lamb. " Ten years later, in 1887, Edison formed the Edison Phonograph Company to sell the phonograph to the public. ... The first records sold by the Edison and Columbia Phonograph Companies were on wax cylinders. ... The Edison National Phonograph Company continued making cylinders and discs until 1929. ... To learn more about Thomas Edison and listen to early recordings, visit the Websites listed at the bottom of the page.
• Photo of Edison with cylinder phonograph in 1878.
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• In 1890, Edison introduced the first talking doll that contained a six-second recording of a nursery rhyme. ... To hear a recording and read more about the history of the Edison Talking Doll, visit these Websites.
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• THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847-1931).
• Without a doubt, the greatest inventor of the modern era has been Thomas Edison. ...
• Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. ... But his teachers considered young Edison a failure; and his mother soon decided to home-school him. ...
• Edison's first job (1859) was operating a newstand on the railroad that ran from Port Huron to Detroit. To make the trips more interesting, Edison installed a printing press and chemistry lab in a boxcar. ... Edison then spent many years traveling around Canada and the US, working as a telegraph operator and doing scientific experiments in his free time. ...
• On June 1st of that year, Edison was granted his first patent (#90,646), for an electric voting machine. But no one wanted to use the machine, and Edison resolved never again to invent what would not sell. ... Pope, Edison formed an electrical engineering firm, based in Newark, New Jersey. With Pope, and later alone, Edison eventually earned about 200 patents for telegraph systems and devices. ...
• In 1876, in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Edison founded his famous "invention factory. ... " Edison's first great Menlo Park invention was the phonograph (1877), although he did not bring it to market for ten years. ...
• In 1878, Edison created his prototype incandescent light bulb: a thin strip of paper, attached to wires, enclosed in a vacuum inside a glass bulb. ... After thousands of tests, an "Edison Pioneer," Lewis H. ...
• Edison installed the first reliable, durable electric lights in his own labs, and later built the first public power station, in Manhattan's financial district (1882). However, Edison's DC-current system had only a three-mile range, and was later superseded by Westinghouse's and Tesla's AC-current system. ...

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• Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. ... Edison obtained 1,093 United States patents, the most issued to any individual.
• Edison's greatest contribution was the first practical electric lighting. ... Edison invented the phonograph, and made improvements to the telegraph, telephone and motion picture technology. ...
• Edison was also a good businessman. ... Along with other manufacturing pioneers of his era, Edison helped make the United States a world industrial power. He and Henry Ford became friends after Edison encouraged Ford to use the gasoline powered engine for the automobile.
• Edison was also a ruthless businessman who fought viciously to defeat his competitors. ...
• Edison had great faith in progress and industry, and valued long, hard work. ... " Edison believed that inventing useful products offered everyone the opportunity for fame and fortune while benefiting society.
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