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What inventions are Thomas Edison famous for inventing?

Besides the obvious one, the lightbulb.

Public Comments

1. He didn't in fact invent the lightbulb.
2. Phonograph, and moving pictures (movies)
3. phonograph, made improvements on the telegraph machine.
4. Phonograph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison Duplex Telegraphs (1876) Autographic Printing Kinetoscope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope Electrographic Vote-Recorder Dictaphone electric lamp radio tattoo gun Electro-Motor Escapements Governors for Electro-Motors Galvanic Batteries Pneumatic Stencil-Pens Vacuum Apparatus (1881) Telephone Type-Writer Phonograph-Recorder Phonograph Ore-Separator Railway-Signaling Electric Locomotive Kinetographic Camera Mounting for Diamonds and the Like
5. Thomas Edison Patent list http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledisonpatents.htm I'm not saying all or any of the designs he patented were successful but there are many patents, over 1000 (not all listed). Some inventions were: 1868 Invented the electrical vote recorder. 1869 Invented the universal stock ticker and the unison stop. 1872 Invented the motograph. Invented the automatic telegraph system. Invented duplex, quadruplex, sextuplex, and multiplex telegraph systems. Invented paraffin paper. Invented the carbon rheostat.