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Edison | Image Gallery

Edison's Miracle of Light: Edison's Technology

By the time Thomas Edison was 23, his passion to experiment and develop new inventions had earned him a number of patents. Although not all of Edison's creations were popular or useful enough to be mass-produced, many paved the way for future technology. The images in this gallery show advertisements and uses of a few of the mechanisms Edison created.

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  • Advertisment for Edison's dictating machine

     Credit: Edison National Historical Site

  • "Model F" phonograph

     Credit: Edison National Historical Site

  • Edison using one of his motion picture cameras

     Credit: Edison National Historical Site

  • Edison using the telescribe machine

     Credit: Edison National Historical Site

  • Man using a sound version of the kinetoscope

     Credit: Edison National Historical Site

  • Women listening to an Edison portable phonograph

     Credit: Edison National Historical Site

  • A film still from the motion picture "Charlie's Reform"

     Credit: Edison National Historical Site

  • Selling Edison cylinder records

     Credit: Edison National Historical Site
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