what is thomas edison's most famous for?
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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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 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 . 

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 The meeting of Lambert and Boruwłaski , the largest and smallest men in the country , was the subject of enormous public interest ; one newspaper reported that " It was Sir John Falstaff and Tom Thumb , which must have afforded a double treat to the curious " . Boruwłaski lived to see his 98th year , despite the prediction of the money @-@ lender who sold him his annuity that his small stature would make him prone to illness . 

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 On page 20 of the published book , Hergé included a cameo of the characters Thomson and Thompson and Quick & Flupke . The story also introduced Captain Chester , who is mentioned in later adventures , and Professor Cantonneau , who returns in The Seven Crystal Balls . 

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 Thomas Edison 's British headquarters , Edison House , was situated on the road . Several prominent personalities of the late 19th century had their voices recorded there by phonograph , including Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and poet Robert Browning . Mary Helen Ferguson , the first English female audio typist , worked at Edison House and supervised all musical recordings . In 1890 , retired military trumpeter Martin Lanfried recorded at Edison House using a bugle he believed to have been sounded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854 . 
