what things did thomas edison invent?
Phonograph Carbon microphone Mimeograph Quadruplex telegraph Electric power distribution Movie camera Incandescent light bulb Phonograph cylinder
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 As the public familiarity with electricity as the lifeblood of the Second Industrial Revolution grew , its wielders were more often cast in a positive light , such as the workers who " finger death at their gloves ' end as they piece and repiece the living wires " in Rudyard Kipling 's 1907 poem Sons of Martha . Electrically powered vehicles of every sort featured large in adventure stories such as those of Jules Verne and the Tom Swift books . The masters of electricity , whether fictional or real — including scientists such as Thomas Edison , Charles Steinmetz or Nikola Tesla — were popularly conceived of as having wizard @-@ like powers . 

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 The device was invented in 1803 by Richard Trevithick , the proponent of high @-@ pressure ( as opposed to atmospheric ) steam engines , in consequence of an explosion in one of his new boilers . His detractors were eager to denounce the whole concept of high @-@ pressure steam , but Trevithick proved that the accident happened because his fireman had neglected to keep the boiler full of water . He publicised his invention widely , without patent , to counter these criticisms . 

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 Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600 , when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism , distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber . He coined the New Latin word electricus ( " of amber " or " like amber " , from ἤλεκτρον , elektron , the Greek word for " amber " ) to refer to the property of attracting small objects after being rubbed . This association gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity " , which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne 's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646 . 

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 While Edison seems to have conceived the idea and initiated the experiments , Dickson apparently performed the bulk of the experimentation , leading most modern scholars to assign Dickson with the major credit for turning the concept into a practical reality . The Edison laboratory , though , worked as a collaborative organization . Laboratory assistants were assigned to work on many projects while Edison supervised and involved himself and participated to varying degrees . 

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 While the early 19th century had seen rapid progress in electrical science , the late 19th century would see the greatest progress in electrical engineering . Through such people as Alexander Graham Bell , Ottó Bláthy , Thomas Edison , Galileo Ferraris , Oliver Heaviside , Ányos Jedlik , William Thomson , 1st Baron Kelvin , Charles Algernon Parsons , Werner von Siemens , Joseph Swan , Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse , electricity turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life , becoming a driving force of the Second Industrial Revolution . 
