Definition of Thomas alva edison

1. Noun. United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931).

Exact synonyms: Edison, Thomas Edison
Generic synonyms: Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor

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Literary usage of Thomas alva edison

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... In 1877 thomas alva edison brought out his first talking machine. The contrivance was of the simplest, being merely a steel point fixed to the centre of ..."

2. Off-hand Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers by Stephen Fiske (1884)
"thomas alva edison. THERE is no better illustration of the fitfulness of the fever of fame than the contrast between the place which the young inventor of ..."

3. Twenty Years in Paris: Being Some Recollections of a Literary Life by Robert Harborough Sherard (1906)
"... CHAPTER XII thomas alva edison—How I made his Acquaintance—A Characteristic Letter—The King's Envoye"—Count and Countess Edison—Edison's Opinion on ..."

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