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Thomas alva edison timeline Navy and said he would quit the Naval Consulting Board that he had conceived, created, and chaired, if his proposed new research laboratory was built anywhere other than Sandy Hook. The inventor begins his last major work, trying to find a new source of natural rubber. History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope. The Nineteenth Amendment passes.

Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine.

Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.

Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

Thomas Edison, first human voice recorded, {Mary had a little lamb.}

Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).

Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time.

Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.

In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.

First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.

The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.

A recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's The Lost Chord, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London.

Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.

Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.