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:

• 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.

• In 1868 Edison made his first patented invention, the Electrical Vote Recorder.

• 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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