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CollectionInventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies This site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles. Cylinder sound recordings will be added to this site in the near future. In addition, histories are given of Edison's involvement with motion pictures and sound recordings, as well as a special page focusing on the life of the great inventor. Prolific inventor...
- Date: 1847
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ArticleBiography Inventor Thomas Alva Edison profoundly influenced modern life through inventions such as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera. During his lifetime, he acquired 1,093 patents, and marketed many of his inventions to the public.
- Date: 1847
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ArticleHistory of Edison Motion Pictures "I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear, which is the recording and reproduction of things in motion ...."
- Date: 1877
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ArticleHistory of Edison Sound Recordings "I was never so taken aback in my life--I was always afraid of things that worked the first time."
- Date: 1877
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ArticleTimeline The following timeline focuses on major events in Thomas A. Edison''s personal life and on his motion picture and phonograph inventions. For a more detailed of Edison''s life and work, please consult the Thomas A. Edison Papers website at Rutgers University External.
- Date: 1847