Labels:text | font | screenshot | paper | number | letter OCR: CHRONOLOGY FEBRUARY 11, 1847 Bom in Milan, Ohio, son of a mill owner. OCTOBER 13, 1868 Receives patent for first invention, a vote recorder. 1871 Sets up a manufacturing plant in Newark, New Jersey. 1876 Invents the microphone and carbon telephone transmitter. 1877 Invents the first practical wax-cylinder phonograph. 1879 Produces first commercially viable electric lamp. 1883 Discovers the "Edison effect" - the basis of the vacuum tube. 1889 Forms the Edison Electric Light Company (later General Electric). AUGUST 27, 1910 Demonstrates the "kinetophone," which plays motion pictures and speech at the same time. OCTOBER 18, 1931 Dies at his home in West Orange, New Jersey.
