Thomas Edison, an American inventor, was born in Milan, Ohio in 1847.
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was a businessman and inventor from the United States. He invented several inventions in disciplines as diverse as electric power production, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These technologies, which included the phonograph, motion picture cameras, and early versions of the electric light bulb, had a significant influence on the contemporary industrialised world. He was one of the first innovators to apply the ideas of organised science and cooperation to the process of innovation, and he collaborated with a large number of researchers and employees. He was responsible for the establishment of the first industrial research laboratory.
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