Edison Storage Battery Co. - Signed twice by Thomas Edison - Stock Certificate
Inv# AG1861 Stock
Stock Issued to Thomas A. Edison and signed front and at back. Very Rare!
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), considered the greatest Inventor in history. His formal education lasted only three months. He was home schooled by his Mother at the age of 9, she bought him a chemistry book. That began his interest in Chemistry and testing experiments. As a youth he sold newspapers and snacks on the Grand Trunk Railway. While aboard the train he conducted chemical experiments. In 1868 he worked as a telegrapher in Boston. His first invention, an electrographic vote recorder, was patented in 1869. He also took out patents for an improved stock ticker, a telegraph device used to report the price of gold to brokers' offices. In 1876 he moved his laboratory to Menlo Park, NJ. In 1879, he made commercially practicable the incandescent lamp, but did not invent it. Other inventions included the kinetoscope, ore-mill machinery, the storage battery, and dictating machine. He invented the phonograph, his greatest single achievement from the viewpoint of inventive imagination. In 1888, he founded the Edison Phonograph Works.
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