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Line 125: − − == External links == − [[Image:Movie-edison.jpg|thumb|320px|Sound movies: 1913 Edison's Kinetophone. The viewer looks at film through the peep-hole while listening to the accompanying phonograph through two rubber ear tubes. The 1895 version worked poorly; this one was dropped because labor contracts required a union operator to be present.<ref> See [http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledison_kinetoscope.htm Kinetophones]</ref>]] − * [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edbiohm.html Library of Congress] − * [http://edison.rutgers.edu/biogrphy.htm Rutgers University] − * [http://edison.rutgers.edu/famchron.htm Chronology of Edison's Family] − * [http://www.projectshum.org/Edison/ Edison Project] − * [http://www.gelighting.com/na/home_lighting/gela/students/history_bio_edison.htm GE] − * [http://www.famous-inventors.com/thomas-edison-biography.html Famous Inventors] − * [http://www.nps.gov/archive/edis/edisonia.htm National Park Service] − * [http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents.htm Edison’s Patents] − * [http://ariwatch.com/VS/TheDiaryOfThomasEdison.htm The Diary of Thomas Edison] – complete text, with explanatory footnotes. −
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== External links ==
[[Image:Movie-edison.jpg|thumb|320px|Sound movies: 1913 Edison's Kinetophone. The viewer looks at film through the peep-hole while listening to the accompanying phonograph through two rubber ear tubes. The 1895 version worked poorly; this one was dropped because labor contracts required a union operator to be present.<ref> See [http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledison_kinetoscope.htm Kinetophones]</ref>]]
* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edbiohm.html Library of Congress]
* [http://edison.rutgers.edu/biogrphy.htm Rutgers University]
* [http://edison.rutgers.edu/famchron.htm Chronology of Edison's Family]
* [http://www.projectshum.org/Edison/ Edison Project]
* [http://www.gelighting.com/na/home_lighting/gela/students/history_bio_edison.htm GE]
* [http://www.famous-inventors.com/thomas-edison-biography.html Famous Inventors]
* [http://www.nps.gov/archive/edis/edisonia.htm National Park Service]
* [http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents.htm Edison’s Patents]
* [http://ariwatch.com/VS/TheDiaryOfThomasEdison.htm The Diary of Thomas Edison] – complete text, with explanatory footnotes.
==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* Stross, Randall E. '' The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World'' (2007) 376 pages; a debunking account that says his inventions were exaggerated and that after 1882 Edison was mostly a PR genius
* Stross, Randall E. '' The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World'' (2007) 376 pages; a debunking account that says his inventions were exaggerated and that after 1882 Edison was mostly a PR genius
* Wasik, John F. ''The Merchant of Power: Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis'' (2006) 280pp
* Wasik, John F. ''The Merchant of Power: Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis'' (2006) 280pp
===Primary sources===
===Primary sources===
* Israel, Paul W., ed. ''The Papers of Thomas A. Edison,'' (6 vol
* Israel, Paul W., ed. ''The Papers of Thomas A. Edison,'' (6 vol
** vol 5: ''The Papers of Thomas A. Edison: Research to Development at Menlo Park, January 1879-March 1881'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Papers-Thomas-Edison-Development-1879-March/dp/0801831040/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229892178&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
** vol 5: ''The Papers of Thomas A. Edison: Research to Development at Menlo Park, January 1879-March 1881'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Papers-Thomas-Edison-Development-1879-March/dp/0801831040/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229892178&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
** vol 6: '' Electrifying New York and Abroad, April 1881--March 1883'' (2007) 940pp
** vol 6: '' Electrifying New York and Abroad, April 1881--March 1883'' (2007) 940pp
* Association of Edison Illuminating Companies. Committee on St. Louis Exposition. ''"Edisonia," a brief history of the early Edison electric lighting system'' (1904) [http://books.google.com/books?id=zA0LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA61&dq=%22pearl+street%22+intitle:edison&lr=&num=30&as_brr=1&as_pt=ALLTYPES#PPA63-IA1,M1 complete text online], shows many of Edison's inventions
* Association of Edison Illuminating Companies. Committee on St. Louis Exposition. ''"Edisonia," a brief history of the early Edison electric lighting system'' (1904) [http://books.google.com/books?id=zA0LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA61&dq=%22pearl+street%22+intitle:edison&lr=&num=30&as_brr=1&as_pt=ALLTYPES#PPA63-IA1,M1 complete text online], shows many of Edison's inventions
== References ==
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