Nativitas: 11 Februarii 1847; Milan Obitus: 18 Octobris 1931; West Orange Patria: Civitates Foederatae Americae Nomen nativum: Thomas Alva Edison
Familia
Genitores: Samuel Ogden Edison; Nancy Elliott Coniunx: Mary Stilwell Edison, Mina Miller Proles: Charles Edison, Theodore Miller Edison, Thomas Alva Edison Jr., Marion Estelle Edison Oeser, Madeleine Edison, William Leslie Edison
Eius opus provectum in his campis ex curriculo opificis telegraphici ortum est. Ille rationem invenit electrictatis domibus, negotiis, fabricisque generandae et distribuendae,[2] progressum instituens maximi momenti in hodierna fabricationis et venditionis merciumoeconomia. Eius prima statio vi electricae dicata in via Pearl ManhataeNovi Eboraci iacebat.[2]
Israel, Paul. 1998. Edison: A Life of Invention. Novi Eboraci: Wiley. ISBN 9780471529422.
Jonnes, Jill. 2003. Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World. Novi Eboraci: Random House. ISBN 9780375507397.
Pretzer, William S., ed. 1989. Working at Inventing: Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Experience. Dearborn Michiganiae: Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. ISBN 9780933728332.
Stross, Randall E. 2007. The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World. Crown. ISBN 1400047625.