Thomas Alva Edison

**Thomas Edison**
	American inventor and businessman (1847-1931) Thomas Edison vers 1922.
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Name in native language	Thomas Edison;
Date of birth	11 February 1847; Milan; Thomas Alva Edison
Date of death	18 October 1931; West Orange
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	type 2 diabetes;
Place of burial	Thomas Edison National Historical Park;
Work period (start)	1877;
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	Cooper Union (chemistry, 1875–1879);
Occupation	engineer; inventor; mathematician; entrepreneur; screenwriter; businessman; film director; physicist;
Employer	General Electric; Continental Edison;
Member of	Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; American Philosophical Society; Academy of Sciences of the USSR; Russian Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Sciences (Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 1927–); Naval Advisory Board of Inventions;
Field of work	invention; entrepreneurship; electrical engineering; engineering; screenwriting; inventor; entrepreneur;
Native language	English;
Father	Samuel Ogden Edison;
Mother	Nancy Elliott;
Sibling	Carlisle Snow Edison;
Child	Charles Edison; Theodore Miller Edison; Thomas Alva Edison Jr.; Marion Estelle Edison Oeser; Madeleine Edison; William Leslie Edison;
Spouse	Mary Stilwell Edison (1871–1884); Mina Miller (1886–1931);
Relative	Lewis Miller (father-in-law);
Notable work	incandescent light bulb; phonograph;
Award received	Commander of the Legion of Honour (1889); Grammy Trustees Award (1977); Benjamin Franklin Medal; Matteucci Medal (1887); Rumford Prize (1895); John Scott Award (1889); New Jersey Hall of Fame (2008); Franklin Medal (1915); Congressional Gold Medal (1928); National Inventors Hall of Fame (1973); Navy Distinguished Service Medal (1920); Albert Medal (1892); Edward Longstreth Medal (1899); Technical Grammy Award (2010); John Fritz Medal (1908); honorary doctor of Rutgers University; star on Hollywood Walk of Fame; Knight of the Legion of Honour (1879); Officer of the Legion of Honour (1881); grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy (1889); John Scott Award (1929);
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	Q8743; ISNI: 0000000121373760; VIAF ID: 66552944; GND ID: 118528912; Library of Congress authority ID: n80126308; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12407892h; IdRef ID: 067719627; NDL Authority ID: 00542495; Libraries Australia ID: 35056706; Léonore ID: LH//890/51; NL CR AUT ID: jn20000700470; SELIBR ID: 184480; National Library of Israel ID (old): 000431599; National Library of Spain ID: XX913688; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 069721580, 18294834X; NORAF ID: 90089750; NUKAT ID: n01196962; U.S. National Archives Identifier: 10569067; NLP ID (old): a0000001228408; National Library of Korea ID: KAC199607829; Libris-URI: sq46649b16hj3md; PLWABN ID: 9810683066105606; J9U ID: 987007277700505171; FranceArchives agent ID: 301265135; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA03566915; Open Library ID: OL354984A; Union List of Artist Names ID: 500066589; MusicBrainz artist ID: 7ab467a1-d15b-41ea-a4d9-433d7ff64e9d; IMDb ID: nm0249379
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Alternative names	Thomas Alva Edison
Description	American inventor, scientist and businessman
Date of birth/death	11 February 1847	18 October 1931
Location of birth/death	Milan, Ohio	West Orange, New Jersey
Work period	1877 –
Authority file	: Q8743 VIAF: 66552944 ISNI: 0000000121373760 ULAN: 500066589 LCCN: n80126308 NAID: 10569067 NLA: 35056706 MusicBrainz: 7ab467a1-d15b-41ea-a4d9-433d7ff64e9d Open Library: OL354984A GND: 118528912 SELIBR: 184480 SUDOC: 067719627 BNF: 12407892h NDL: 00542495 BIBSYS: 90089750 NKC: jn20000700470 Léonore: [ LH//890/51] BNE: XX913688 CiNii: DA03566915 NLP: a0000001228408 J9U: 987007277700505171 Koninklijke: 069721580 NLK: KAC199607829 WorldCat

Edison poses with Henry Ford and nuturalist John Burroughs
Edison with phonograph
Vitascope
in lab

Thomas Alva Edison

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