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Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous and prolific inventor of all time. During his life, over 1100 patents were issued to him or his associates; he was known as the wizard of Menlo Park, the town in New Jersey where he set up his first invention factory. Yet he was not really a scientist, having no theory or mathematics, and most of his success came from perfecting the ideas of others or already existing inventions by trial and error.He learned telegraphy on the railway, and his services as a telegrapher were in demand during the Civil War, when he traveled all over the country, incidentally studying electricity. In 1868 came his first invention: a machine to record votes in Congress. But Congress turned it down, because they were not interested in speeding up matters. Edison then resolved to work only on inventions that were commercially viable. His first such invention was an improvement on the ticker machine which transmitted stock market prices. At this particular time in U.S. history, when Wall Street and big business were more powerful than the government and an enormous economic expansion was under way, this invention was so successful that Edison set up a small manufacturing plant to bui
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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