Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio and grew up in Port Human, Michigan. Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark New Jersey with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention that first joined him wider notice was the phonograph. He made a series of inventions. Some other famous inventions with which the name of Edison is associated are as follows Vote recorder printing telegraph and carbon telephone transmitter Edison had made over 1000 experiments before he succeeded in inventing the electric bulb. Edison died on 18th October 1931.
