# Thomas Edison

> He didn't invent the light bulb from scratch, but he made it work for entire cities - and then kept going. The phonograph, the motion picture camera, the first industrial research lab: Edison turned invention itself into a system, which may be the most Edison thing of all.

*American inventor and businessman (1847-1931)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1847-02-11
- **Died:** 1931-10-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Thomas Alva Edison was born February 11, 1847, and raised in the American Midwest. He started as a telegraph operator, a job that seeded his earliest inventions. In 1876 he opened his first laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he developed early versions of the electric light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera - devices that reshaped how people lived, heard, and saw. He was among the first to run invention like industry: organized science, teams of researchers, the first industrial research laboratory. The work made him wealthy, and he plowed the money back into experimental mining operations, the first film studio, and a final tally of 1,093 US patents before his death on October 18, 1931.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 89.6 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 32.0 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 15.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249379/ (@nm0249379)

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Entrepreneurship, #Physics, #Mathematics, #Screenwriting, #Television, #Film Directing

## Timeline
- **2010** - Technical Grammy Award
- **1977** - Grammy Trustees Award
- **1931** - Died
- **1928** - Congressional Gold Medal
- **1915** - Franklin Medal
- **1895** - Rumford Prize
- **1889** - John Scott Award
- **1887** - Matteucci Medal
- **1879** - Knight of the Legion of Honour
- **1847** - Born

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