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View of Windsor Castle

Cliff Marshall and Dave Irving

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The Women's Social and Political Union fife and drum band out for the first time

Thomas Alva Edison sitting beside his invention, the phonograph mb-width 5624 View of Windsor CastleThomas Alva Edison sitting beside his invention, the phonograph, 1878. Dubbed The Wizard of Menlo Park by a newspaper reporter, Edison (1847 1931) 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 laboratory. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1093 US patents in his name, as