Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio.

Thomas Alva Edison, one of the most prolific inventors in history, 
died in his home in West Orange, New Jersey of complications of
diabetes. He was 84.

By the time he died, Thomas Edison had amassed a record 1,093
patents: 389 for electric light and power, 195 for the phonograph.
150 for the telegraph, 141 for storage batteries and 34 for the
telephone.

The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company‘s new
steamship, the Columbia, was the first commercial
application for Edison’s incandescent light bulb in
1880.