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.

LaMarcus Adna Thompson
(March 8, 1848 – May 8, 1919)

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)

Melville House, the Bells’ first home in North America, now
a National Historic Site of Canada.

Bell statue by A. E. Cleeve Horne in front of the Bell
Telephone Building of Brantford, Ontario.

CARLATA BRADLEY

On January 26, 1926, John Logie Baird (1888 – 1946) a Scottish
inventor, gave the first public demonstration of a true television
system in London (above), which launched a revolution in the
communication and entertainment fields.

Baird’s first television program showed the heads of two
ventriloquist dummies, which he operated in front of the
camera apparatus out of view of the audience (below).          

The original television model, invented by the Scottish
television pioneer John Logie Baird.

This image is the first recorded picture taken from a TV
screen.