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Thomas Edison
noun
United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)
Syn: ↑Edison, ↑Thomas Alva Edison
Instance Hypernyms: ↑inventor, ↑discoverer, ↑artificer

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Thomas Edison [Thomas Edison]
(1847–1931) a famous US ↑inventor. His inventions included a machine for reproducing sound, the electric light ↑bulb and the ‘kinescopic camera’, later used in cinemas. He produced the first talking films in 1912. Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety nine per cent perspiration. Thomas Edison

Useful english dictionary. 2012.