Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio; and his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, when he was nine.

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Be aware that Thos Hollis was a major benefactor of Harvard between 1726 and 1764 - but he never visited America, being a prosperous non-conformist London merchant who supported Harvard's ecumenicalism in accepting all Protestant students.

It's just possible his name, having great prestige locally in the middle 1700s, was taken by whoever was at 23 Union St as a trademark.

But I'm only guessing. I was in contact with Harvard a year ago about Hollis as his brother John, who also endowed Harvard, is my 5-greats-grandfather.

Dan (Hollis) WilsonEdenbridge, Kent, UK

I also have acquired a cobalt bottle with the same name on it. The very old label reads:Lenitive Electuaryprepared byThomas HollisChemist and Apothecary,30 Union SteetBoston.This is not an answer however maybe it can be useful. I am in search of the history of my bottle as well.

Thomas Hollis and Company was owned by my grandmother's family who had the last name of Hollis and lived in Boston. I remember as a child when they sold it, which was some where around 1959 give or take 5 years. I was also told that we were related to the Thomas Hollis of Hollis Hall at Harvard, but I have never been able to make the connection. He never married and a left his fortune to a Thomas Brand Hollis, so could have been an uncle not a great....whatever grandfather. The Hollis family as far as I know has died out. My grandmother had three sisters who never married and my mother was an only child. My middle name was Hollis and my daughters first name is Hollis. Recently I have been trying to investigate this issue, but have no family memeber to talk to. If anyone has any ideas let me know. My email address is Maine47@comcast.net

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He was 14 years old, his father Peter Jefferson died in 1757. This is when he inherited the 5000 acre plantation that became his home called Monticello. He loved his home.

To help Thomas Edison (9 o'clock, 1877 AD), you need his phonograph. This you can find in the Ancient Greek period (1 o'clock, 328 BC). Go past the guards and climb onto the top of the winged statue. You can jump left to the roof. To help the Ancient Greeks, you need to get the golden vase. You can find this in the cave in the Viking period (2 o'clock, 831 AD). You blast open the entrance with gunpowder (found at the Great Wall of China, 6 o'clock, 1593 AD). Once inside, you have little time : run down, up, up, up, across, down and to the left, avoiding the three water puddles at the end. Return the vase, and the Greeks will let you talk to the Oracle. Although she may suggest locations and actions, it is usually just as easy to find them yourself. (see related question)

Bell & Watson's telephone had a parchment diaphragm. Thomas Edison recognized that if the diaphragm were replaced with a conductive medium it would have far greater transmission strength, and possibly better clarity. Edison developed a compressed carbon disc which was indeed superior to Bell's parchment design, and later improved it by baking the carbon. Apparently this later version was used in telephones for much of the 20th Century.

Thomas Edison didn't actually invent the electric chair but, paid Harold P. Brown to. It was invented because Thomas Edison's competitor Nikola Tesla had AC electricty (Edison had DC) and AC was cheaper but, more dangerous. Thomas Edison wanted people to know this (so more people would choose his over Tesla's) so he had it made and electrocuted William Kemmler (who had chopped up his wife and was sent to perison). this was called the war of currents

he lived in new york and died there in 1848

Physicist, Albert Einstein registered a total of fifty patents. His inventions were often the result of collaboration with others. When he first graduated college, he had difficulty finding a teaching post. So, he took a job at the Swiss patent office, where he reviewed patent applications.

Herbert Hoover asked the nation to turn off their lights in honor of Edison.

Yes, Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826

Humphry Davy invented the lightbulb in the 1800's.

He never did. Indeed, Edison did not do any work with electric calculators.

Others invented mechanical devices that could do calculations, but these were (literally) one of a kind. Not until 1851 was a calculator sold on a large-scale basis, and even then only a few thousand were sold in the next half century.

Note that, the item "Edison Cordless Calculator Patent 1902" is a joke item from the 1960s that only uses that name and date for humor.

Colleges usually require 3 or more evaluations from your teachers, conselors, and sometimes your boss. Also, colleges usually ask you to write your autobiography of about 500 words or less.Lastly, most colleges require that you take the (SAT) or ACT Assesment and also some advanced placement tests as well. =]

Thomas Edison

Thomas E. Murray

The term candy butcher as applied to concession people on circuses is thought to have originated when hard blocks of candy which had to be cut into pieces for sale. If you go to the European fair grounds today you will still see vendors cutting different types of block candy, fudge, etc.

Thomas Edison invented the Incandescent electric light.

10th September 1889

The first motion pictures made in the Black Maria were deposited for copyright by W. K. L. Dickson at the Library of Congress in August 1893. The earliest copyrighted film that still survives is Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, January 7, 1894, also known as Fred Ott's Sneeze, which records Fred Ott, an Edison employee, sneezing comically for the camera. This motion picture was not submitted to the Copyright Office on celluloid film, but rather as a series of positive photographic prints.

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I remember reading somewhere that putting lights in the alleys and ensuring weekly garbage pickups as scheduled were two of the main campaign promises made by Richard J. Daley that got him elected Mayor of Chicago, but I don't know which election. I also don't recall where I read this. It was in 1966 lights were installed in Chicago's Alleys.

One version of the story points out that Mexican inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in a city in Zacatecas.

Thomas Alva Edison was an inventor who, with his more than a thousand inventions, revolutionized humanity's way of life. Edison was a genius of his day, developing the light and giving rise to automatic telegraphy and putting the phone into service, and also giving us the opportunity to listen to the music through a phonograph. The man was a legend about his birth and his Mexican roots similar to the one circulated.

The story of Edison's Mexican origin says that he was born on February 18, 1848, in the town of Sombrerete in Zacatecas, and not, as believed, on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio.