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Edison's Inventions

1868

Invented the electric vote recorder

1869

Invented the universal stock ticker and the unison stop

1872

Invented the monograph; automatic telegraph system; duplex, quadruplex, sextuplex, and multiplex telegraph systems; paraffin paper; and carbon rheostat

1875

Discovered "Etheric Force," an electric phenomenon that is the foundation of wireless telegraphy

1876

Invented the electric pen used

for the first mimeographs

1877

Invented the carbon telephone transmitter, making telephony commercially practical; phonograph (this was Edison's favorite invention)

1879

Developed practical incandescent light; radically improved dynamos and generators; discovered

a system of distribution, regulation, and measurement of electric current-switches,

fuses, sockets, and meters

1880

Invented the magnetic ore separator; discovered the "Edison Effect," the fundamental principle of electronics

1885

Discovered a system of wireless induction telegraph moving trains and stations

1891

Invented the motion picture camera

1896

Invented the fluoroscope; invented the fluorescent electric lamp

1900

Invented the nickel-iron-alkaline storage battery

1914

Invented the electric safety miner's lamp; discovered the process for manufacturing synthetic carbolic acid

1915

Conducted special experiments on more than 40 major war problems for the Navy Department

1927-1931

Tested 17,000 plants for rubber content as a source of rubber in ware emergencies

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