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Thomas Alva Edison   /tˈɑməs ˈælvə ˈɛdɪsən/   Listen
Thomas Alva Edison

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1.
United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931).  Synonyms: Edison, Thomas Edison.






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"Thomas alva edison" Quotes from Famous Books



... forty-five minutes and covered many philosophical facets of the s.f. field. Especially rousing hands were given two of the real old-timers present, artist Frank R. Paul (Guest of Honor of the first Convention), and—out of the Ark—the man who once was an assistant to Thomas Alva Edison, the pioneer novelist of scientific romances and the man who discovered the Golden Atom—Ray Cummings. World famous cartoonist Al Capp gave a hilarious speech at the Banquet Sunday night, other large laughs being garnered on the occasion ...
— Out of This World Convention • Forrest James Ackerman

... telephone probe, and the gramophone. During the war he designed a "submarine chaser" capable of traveling under water at a speed of over seventy miles an hour, and he has made important experiments in the field of aeronautics and in other arts and sciences. The mother of Thomas Alva Edison (b. 1847), it may here be mentioned, was of Scottish parentage (Elliott). The originator of the duplex system in the manufacture of railroad tickets was William Harrison Campbell (1846-1906), of Scottish parentage. William Malcolm (1823-90), also ...
— Scotland's Mark on America • George Fraser Black



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