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Definition of Thomas Edison

1. Noun. United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931).

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Literary usage of Thomas Edison

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thomas Alva Edison by Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1915)
"It is to be remembered that the inventor's greatgrandfather— Thomas Edison — was a prominent bank officer and financier in New York during the ..."

2. The Cosmic Inventor: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866-1932) by Frederick Seitz (1999)
"Bermuda; New York; Thomas Edison In 1884, at the age of eighteen, Fessenden left college before obtaining a final degree and was financially on his own. ..."

3. Journals of the Continental Congress by United States Continental Congress, United States, Library of Congress Manuscript Division (1912)
"... to whom was referred a letter, of 30 November last, from Thomas Edison, report : "That Thomas Edison has by an essential service to the United States ..."

4. Children's Story-sermons by Hugh Thomson Kerr (1911)
"LXIX Thomas Edison and Theodore EVERY boy and girl knows who Thomas Edison is. They know that he is the man who works so much with electricity. ..."

5. Thomas A. Edison and Samuel F. B. Morse by Van Buren Denslow, Permelia Jane Marsh Parker (1887)
"His great-grandfather, Thomas Edison, had been a prominent bank officer and financier in New York during the American War. As such his name appears as the ..."

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