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Inventor & Businessman
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He improved many inventions to make them more practical and cheaper. Such as the light bulb, telegraph machine, the motion picture camera and the phonograph.
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PersonalDetails
Born:
February 11, 1847 Milan, Ohio, United States
Died:
October 18, 1931 (aged 84) West Orange, New Jersey, United States (complications of diabetes)
Family:
Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (father), Nancy Matthews Elliott, 6 siblings
Spouse:
Mary Stilwell (married 1871; died 1884), Mina Miller (married 1886)