Born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison rose from humble beginnings to work as an inventor of major technology. Setting up a lab in Menlo Park, some of the products he developed included the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, electric light bulb, alkaline storage batteries and Kinetograph (a camera for motion pictures).
Born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison rose from humble beginnings to work as an inventor of major technology. Setting up a lab in Menlo Park, some of the products he developed included the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, electric light bulb, alkaline storage batteries and Kinetograph (a camera for motion pictures).
Date of Birth 7 January 1873, Ricse, Austria-Hungary. [now in Hungary] Date of Death 10 June 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA Height 5' (1.52 m) Mini Biography Adolph Zukor's success began with penny arcades, offering moving peepshows that evolved into nickelodeon theaters that offered longer, larger moving pictures.
Date of Birth Date of Death 21 January 1938, Paris, France Birth Name Marie Georges Jean Méliès Mini Biography Georges Melies, a professional magician by training, first saw the new "moving pictures" in 1895. Little over a year later, Melies was filming and projecting his own creations.
