| Birth: | Feb. 11, 1847
Milan
Erie County
Ohio, USA | | Death: | Oct. 18, 1931
West Orange
Essex County
New Jersey, USA | 
Inventor. He was born in Milan, Ohio. His total formal school education was three months. His mother, a former school teacher, undertook his education. At the age of twelve, because he exhibited adult maturity, he convinced his parents to allow him to leave home and work as a newsboy aboard a train to Detroit. He published a weekly paper and sold it to passengers. Learning to operate a telegraph he gained employment. After a few years as a wandering operator, Edison settled in New York. Always, during employment, in his spare time, he worked on his inventions and experiments. Thomas Edison received $40,000 on ideas for improving the telegraph and telephone. He ventured out on his own, building a large work shop at West Orange, New Jersey. Here the invention of the phonograph was achieved. The electric light followed. Edison made over a thousand inventions from this laboratory. Some others were the moving-picture machine, the storage battery, the mimeograph, machines to help the iron and steel business. His inventions made possible our electric trains and streetcars. During the First World War, Edison was seventy. The government asked him to serve. He build a factory in eighteen days. Here he made many things which helped the army and navy. In his 80's, his health began to fail. He obtained his last (1,093rd) patent at age 83. In August 1931, Thomas Edison collapsed at Glenmont (His residence located on a 15 acre estate). From that point, he steadily declined in health and was housebound until 3:21AM on Oct 18th, when the inventor died. A death mask was made. His body was placed in the Laboratory building on Lakeside, Avenue in West Orange and thousands of mourners paraded past. The evening of the day he was buried, countless individuals, communities and corporations throughout the world dimmed their lights, or briefly shut down their power in tribute. With Mrs Herbert Hover, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone in attendance, he was buried at Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, New Jersey, with Mina, his second wife buried beside him upon her death. In 1963, the remains of both were exhumed from Rosedale Cemetery and reinterred at Edison's Glenmont estate. Edison's New Jersey Research Laboratory and Glenmont are today preserved as part of the Edison National Historical site.
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Parents:
Samuel Ogden Edison (1804 - 1896)
Nancy Elliot Edison (1810 - 1871)
Spouses:
Mary Stilwell Edison (1855 - 1884)*
Mina Miller Edison (1865 - 1947)*
Children:
Marion Estelle Edison Oeser (1872 - 1965)*
Thomas Alva Edison (1876 - 1935)*
William Leslie Edison (1878 - 1937)*
Madeleine Edison Sloane (1888 - 1979)*
Charles Edison (1890 - 1969)*
Theodore Miller Edison (1898 - 1992)*
*Calculated relationship
Search Amazon for Thomas Edison | | | Burial:
Edison National Historic Site
West Orange
Essex County
New Jersey, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 1630 |
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Thank you for films and recorded sound!
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Christine
Added: Jun. 14, 2013 |
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MacBean
Added: Jun. 10, 2013 |
Thanks to his work, we enjoy recorded music, movies, electric light, solid concrete, and much more. I just visited the Edison Winter Estate in Fort Myers, FL, where he did many experiments with bamboo and goldenrod. He often went camping in Florida with H...(Read more)
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Mike Japp
Added: Jun. 6, 2013 |
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