# Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison worked in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States as an inventor, laboratory organizer, entrepreneur, and industrial system builder. His organizations developed and commercialized telegraph, sound-recording, electric-lighting, motion-picture, storage-battery, and other technologies through coordinated research and manufacturing.

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