Know Edison
The Edison Millennium
Project "...If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would
literally astound ourselves…".
Did you know that:
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Edison is credited with holding 1,093 patents and is the only person in our
country ever to have a patent granted every year for sixty-five consecutive
years, 1868 to 1933.
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In 1868 Edison made his first patented invention, the Electrical Vote Recorder.
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At age 23 Edison made his first sale of an invention, a Universal Stock Ticker,
to General Lefferts, the head of the Gold and Stock Telegraph Co.
Edison - Ford Winter Estate web site at
http://www.edison-ford-estate.com/thomas-edison/Ebio.htm
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