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Thomas Alva Edison was born in America on Feb.11 1847 and died Oct.18 1931. He was great American Inventor and business man. His inventions include the phonograph (1879), kinetoscope (1888) which led to a film projector (1896) and although he is most famously linked with inventing the electric light bulb in effect he only improved an invention making it into a household item.

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