Ducksters
Ducksters: Thomas Edison: Inventor of the Light Bulb and Much More
Kids learn about Thomas Edison's biography. Invented many things including the light bulb and phonograph.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Vacuum Tubes
The Nobel Foundation provides a brief story about the first vacuum tubes used in early electronic devices such as radios and phonographs and even the first computers.
Other
History of Rock and Roll: Technology
This site offers a history of audio formats. Follow the links and learn about the 45 RPM, 33 RPM, and the jukebox.
PBS
American Experience: Technology Timeline: 1752 1990
Short descriptions of important technological innovations produced in America and the date of their introduction.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Technology Timeline 1750 1990
Did you ever wonder who invented something, and when it was invented? Go to this interactive timeline that highlights inventors/inventions from 1750-1990. Click on the topic to read a brief paragraph about that invention.
Other
Edison: His Life and Inventions: The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone
This site offers the text of a book by Frank Dyer and Thomas Martin published in 1929 on the inventions of Thomas Edison. This particular page discusses Alexander Graham Bell's development of the telephone and the controversy over Thomas...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Thomas Edison Biography
Interesting biographical information, famous inventions, and quotes of Thomas Edison, one of America's greatest inventors.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Edison invented the automatic repeater, duplex telephone, phonograph, the electric pen, the microphone, the megaphone, kinetoscope, the microtasimeter, and the quadruplex and sextuplex transmitters.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was born at Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847, but the family soon after moved to Port Huron, Michigan. He had to earn his living from early boyhood, and was a train boy on a railroad. A station master, whose child's life...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Thomas Edison
Edison talking into the phonograph.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Thomas Edison
This is a black and white photo of a famous American inventor named Thomas Edison. His many inventions included the practical electric light bulb and phonograph (a device used to play recorded sound).
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This site offers a history of audio formats. Follow the links and learn about the 45 RPM, 33 RPM, and the jukebox.
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This site offers a history of audio formats. Follow the links and learn about the 45 RPM, 33 RPM, and the jukebox.