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Sure, we know about Thomas Alva Edison ... We also know that he invented the phonograph and the motion picture camera. New Jersey has more to offer than Edison’s amazing mind and tenacity.

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He was obsessed with flight and engineered plans for the first flying machine but never built them ... Image credit: Timofeeff via Shutterstock.com. Thomas Edison is regarded as one of America’s ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...