See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS See also:

• ALVA
• ALVA, or ALBA, FERNANDO ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO, DUKE OF, (1508-1583)

ALVA See also:

• THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847– )

EDISON (1847– )  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American inventor, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the lrth of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1847, at See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan, See also:

• ERIE

Erie See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

• OHIO

Ohio, of mixed Dutch and Scottish descent; but his parents moved to See also:

• PORT

Port See also:

• HURON
• HURON (a French term, from huge', bristled, early used as an expression of contempt, signifying "lout ")

Huron, See also:

• MICHIGAN
• MICHIGAN, LAKE
• MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF

Michigan, when he was seven years old . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twelve he became a See also:

• TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train See also:

• NEWS

news-boy an the railway to See also:

• DETROIT

Detroit, and managed to gratify his youthful See also:

• INTEREST

interest in See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry by performing experiments while travelling . At fifteen he became a See also:

• TELEGRAPH (Gr. Tike, far, and rypaq5eiv, to write)

telegraph operator, and was employed in many cities in the See also:

• UNITED

United States and See also:

• CANADA

Canada, but frequently neglected his duties in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to carry on studies and experiments in See also:

• ELECTRICAL
• ELECTRICAL (or ELECTROSTATIC) MACHINE

electrical See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science . Before he was twenty-one he had constructed an automatic repeater, by means of which a See also:

• MESSAGE (a word occurring in slightly different forms in several languages, e.g. Fr. message, Span. mensaje, Ital. messagio; adapted from the Low Lat. missaticum, from mittere)

message could be transferred from one See also:

• WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire to another without the aid of an operator; and he had also directed his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the problem of duplex telegraphy, of which he later invented a successful See also:

• SYSTEM

system . In 1869 See also:

• EDISON, THOMAS ALVA (1847– )

Edison came to New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, and soon afterwards became connected with the See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

Gold & Stock See also:

• COMPANY

Company . He invented an improved See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing telegraph for stock quotations, for which he received $40,000 . He then established a laboratory and factory in See also:

• NEWARK
• NEWARK (NEWARK-UPON-TRENT)
• NEWARK, DAVID LESLIE, LORD (1601-1682)

Newark, N.J., for further experiments and for the manufacture of his inventions . In 1876 he removed to Menlo See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

Park, and later to See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West See also:

• ORANGE
• ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium)
• ORANGE, HOUSE OF

Orange, N . J., where he continued his experiments . Since then his name has been prominently associated with all kinds of novelties in See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical See also:

• ELECTRICITY

electricity . Among his See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal inventions are his system of duplex telegraphy, which he later See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed into quadruplex and sextuplex trans-See also:

• MISSION

mission; his See also:

• CARBON (symbol C, atomic weight 12)

carbon See also:

• TELEPHONE (Gr. rjXs, far, and dxwvr7, voice)

telephone transmitter; the microtasimeter, for the detection of small See also:

• VARIATIONS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS OF

variations in temperature; the See also:

• PHONOGRAPH
• PHONOGRAPH (Gr. c&JP , sound, ypacbew, to write)

phonograph, which records and reproduces all manner of sounds; the See also:

• CINEMATOGRAPH, or KINEMATOGRAPH (from Ki.vm,ua, motion, and'yplu etv, to depict)

cinematograph, which his improvements made practicable; and his method of preparing carbon filaments for the incandescent electric See also:

• LAMP (from Gr. Xag ras, a torch, Xaµaav, to shine)

lamp . In 1878 Edison was made a See also:

• CHEVALIER, ALBERT (1861– )
• CHEVALIER, MICHEL (1806-1879)
• CHEVALIER, ULYSSE (1841– )

chevalier of the See also:

• LEGION (Lat. legio)

Legion of See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

Honour by the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government .