Thomas Alva Edison

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Thomas Alva Edison’s home cylinder phonographic player. This, and its close technological rivals, the Bell-Tainter gramophone and the Berliner gramophone, stood alone for several decades as the dominant modern innovations in sound reproduction. But Edison is the man! In schools, colleges and universities Thomas Edison is also well known for his development of the incandescent light bulb.

Picture of Thomas Edison

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