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).

Exact synonyms: Edison, Thomas Alva Edison
Generic synonyms: Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Augustus Watson
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Bayes
Thomas Bowdler
Thomas Bradley
Thomas Carew
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Clayton Wolfe
Thomas Crawford
Thomas De Quincey
Thomas Decker
Thomas Dekker
Thomas Edison (current term)
Thomas Edward Lawrence
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gray
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hastings
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Higginson
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Huxley
Thomas J. Hanks

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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