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Who was the most important inventor of the 19th century.

http://stripgenerator.com/strip/205120/ this link will take you to a funny comic strip I made of Edison. Question __The inventor and his personal info.__ I think that the most important inventor of the 19th century is Thomas Alva Edison. He was born on February 11, 1847. Some of his greatest inventions were the tin foil phonograph, the light bulb, and motion picture.

__The inventions__ Fact: the first song recorded was Mary had a Little lamb.
 * The tin foil phonograph** was a recording devise or a record player. This was his first great invention. He was originaly working on improving the telegraph transmiter, while doing that, he notised that the tape of the machine made a noise like spoken words when played at high speed. This event got him thinking to see if he could record telephone messages or today we call it an answering machine. His early experiment, he took a phone diaphragm and attached a neddle to it. To his surprise, he could use a tin foil cylinder to record and play back a song.


 * The light bulb** might have been his greatest invention there is only one thing about it, it wasn't his idea. The light bulb was not invented by him, it was invented by a man called Joseph W. Swan. He had the idea for the light bulb, but Edison was the one who improved the bulb. The idea for the bulb was more of a team effort only they didn't work together on it. Still, Edison's bulb is the bulb we mainly use today.

Edison became interested in motion pictures around February of 1888. A man named Eadweard Muybridge visited his labratory that month and started a partnership with Edison. They made a divice called a kinetoscope. These words have meanings in Greek. Kineto meaning movement and scope meaning to watch. The first motion picture that was copyrited fetured a man named Fred Ott, one of Edison's employees, was recorded while pretending to sneeze.
 * Motion pictures**

There are many other inventors that have been involved in electricity. Even though that there inventions are still good Thomas Edison was the greatest of them all. Take Humphry Davy. He created the Arc Lamp with charcoal rods. Edison mad the lightbulb with filliment besides, filliment is more affictant and cost way less.
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Aother inventor was Alessandro Volta. He was the one who invented the battery this is a really good invention, but, the chemicals inside it are deadly. Edisons light bulb can be run just by a crank. Out of thes inventions, the battery may be the best of the other inventions. Even though I still think Edisons inventions were still the best.

Work Cited http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/edison.html http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledison.htm http://americanhistory.si.edu/lighting/19thcent/prec19.htm code