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1868 Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
1876 Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1877 Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph
, a machine that can record sound (this is considered to be Edison's first great invention) (Edison demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29).
1878 The phonograph
is patented by Thomas Edison
1879 Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time (Menlo Park, New Jersey).
1880 Founding of ''Science'' by Thomas Edison.
1880 In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell
form the Oriental Telephone Company
1883 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service (Roselle, New Jersey) It was built by Thomas Edison.
1888 In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge who proposes a scheme for sound film.
1891 Thomas Edison patents the radio
1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent
for a two-way telegraph
.
1893 Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patent
s. The first is for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and another for a "Stop Device" (No. 491,992-3). Also No. 492,150 for "Process of Coating Conductors for Incandescent Lamps."
1902 Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture
technology.
1904 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
1931 Thomas Edison submits his last patent
application.
1931 Died
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