Edison with motion picture machine (not his own make) in West Orange Library 1897 Edison, Thomas Alva (the Wizard of Menlo Park) US inventor; opened research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey 1876 (moved to West Orange, New Jersey 1887); invented phonograph (1st demonstrated 1877); invented incandescent electric light 1879; invented kinetograph camera and kinetoscope motion-picture viewer (patented 1891) _1847-1931 Mono Print UnitedArchives0873588
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Edison with motion picture machine (not his own make) in West Orange Library 1897 Edison, Thomas Alva (the Wizard of Menlo Park) US inventor; opened research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey 1876 (moved to West Orange, New Jersey 1887); invented phonograph (1st demonstrated 1877); invented incandescent electric light 1879; invented kinetograph camera and kinetoscope motion-picture viewer (patented 1891) _1847-1931 Mono Print UnitedArchives0873588
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