Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. Some of his notable inventions include the phonograph in 1877 and the first practical incandescent electric light bulb in 1879. He was the founder of one of the first industrial research laboratories. Edison held 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. He died on October 18, 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey at the age of 84.

1. Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas was the people that invented the bulb.
He born the 11th
of february of 1847 in
Milan in the USA and he died in the 18th
of
October of 1931 .
When he was a children he lived in New
Jersey.He began the school when he was
8 years old. In 1840 Samuel Edison
established a small carpintery in Milan , Ohio.
Before the family was established in Milan , his

2. wife Nancy , had four children. Then he had
three more, but died three early in the 1840s
and the survivors were fourteen , sixteen and
eighteen when the Fabruary 11, 1847 , Samuel
Edison 's wife gave birth to her seventh child .
He was caled "Thomas" by an ancestor of the
family, " Alva " in honor of Captain Alva Bradle.
Edison devised a simple instrument for
mechanical recount in 1868. You could put on
the table for each representative; had two
buttons, one for voting in favor and one for
voting against . To process patent , Edison
hired attorney Carroll D. Wright. The
instrument was brought before a congressional
committee in Washington. That verdict was
brusque but honest : "Young man, if there is
some invention on earth we do not want here
is exactly yours One of our main interests is to
prevent fraud in the voting , and its apparatus
would do nothing to favor them.
In 1869 , in New York, he got a job very
advantageous conditions after repair a serious
malfunction indicator pointing a telegraph
gold prices in the market.

3. Many time later he invented the
bulb
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