Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and businessman mb-code 42-45213585 Priory Row

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French actor and theatrical director

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He was also a pioneer photographer

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and businessman mb-code 42-45213585 Priory RowThomas Alva Edison (1847 1931), American inventor and businessman, 1926. Edison developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. Dubbed The Wizard of Menlo Park by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research