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Inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014 (inaugural class).

Inducted into the Entrepreneur Walk of Fame in 2011 (inaugural class).

Elected to the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2007 for his services to technology (inaugural election). Official induction ceremonies held in May 2008.

Inducted into the IP (Intellectual Property) Hall of Fame in 2006 (inaugural class).

Depicted on the obverse of a USA $1 commemorative silver coin issued in 2004, celebrating the 125th anniversary of the light bulb.

Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 1973 (sole charter inductee).

Pictured on a 3¢ US postage stamp in the Famous Americans/Inventors series, issued 11 February 1947 (centennial year of his birth).

In 1931, when he died, his estate was estimated at well over $12 million. His estate included shares of Thomas A. Edison, Inc. valued at more than $10 million, $1,342,000 in United States bonds, $48,000 in railroad bonds, $48,000 in cash, and 76,000 shares in 37 different companies that no longer exist.

Awarded a Congressional Gold Medal, 29 May 1928 (45 Stat. 1012).

Founded Conquest Picture Company, a film production company active from 1917-18.

Co-founder, with George Kleine, of K-E-S-E Service, a film distribution company, in 1916. It went out of business in 1927.

He also produced the first American film version of Frankenstein in 1910. That was of course, twenty years before Universal Studios introduced the monster with Boris Karloff. This paved the way for modern day horror as we now know it. Edison is however, perhaps better known as an inventor of many conveniences like the light bulb. He of course produced many other inventions like, among others, the phonograph, power stations, the carbon switch microphone, and motion picture cameras. These advancements gave him a firm place in the history of American Greatness as well as American film production. He was married to Mina Miller and Mary Stilwell.

He was a producer and director, known for silent movies such as, The Trick Cyclist (1901), The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and Bicycle Trick Riding, No.

2 (1899).

Made several experimental short films, some lasting only several seconds, mostly to test his equipment. One film--Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)--which features a man sneezing, runs for 1-1/2 seconds.

By 1876, he had amassed $40,000 through the sale of various telegraphic devices.

Thomas A. Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, USA as Thomas Alva Edison.