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- Thomas Edison, Charles Batchelor, and Uriah Painter with Edison's Phonograph, April 18, 1878 - While in Washington, D.C., for an 1878 presentation to the National Academy of Sciences, inventor Thomas Edison, his lab assistant Charles Batchelor, and Philadelphia Inquirer correspondent Uriah Painter sat for famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady. They posed with Edison's phonograph, a new invention that could, for the first time, record and reproduce sound. The machine made Edison an overnight celebrity.
- April 18, 1878
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Thomas Edison, Charles Batchelor, and Uriah Painter with Edison's Phonograph, April 18, 1878
While in Washington, D.C., for an 1878 presentation to the National Academy of Sciences, inventor Thomas Edison, his lab assistant Charles Batchelor, and Philadelphia Inquirer correspondent Uriah Painter sat for famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady. They posed with Edison's phonograph, a new invention that could, for the first time, record and reproduce sound. The machine made Edison an overnight celebrity.
- Thomas Edison with His Laboratory Assistants, Menlo Park, New Jersey, circa 1880 -
- circa 1880
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Thomas Edison with His Laboratory Assistants, Menlo Park, New Jersey, circa 1880
- Thomas Edison and Employees in Menlo Park Laboratory, Edison, New Jersey, February 22, 1880 - The names of "star" designers might lodge in our minds, just as the names of innovators like Thomas Edison do. But while the essential vision for a design might arise from an individual, it is typically collaboration that drives design ideas through to results. At the Menlo Park laboratory many experimenters undertook the research that made Edison's vision a reality.
- February 22, 1880
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Thomas Edison and Employees in Menlo Park Laboratory, Edison, New Jersey, February 22, 1880
The names of "star" designers might lodge in our minds, just as the names of innovators like Thomas Edison do. But while the essential vision for a design might arise from an individual, it is typically collaboration that drives design ideas through to results. At the Menlo Park laboratory many experimenters undertook the research that made Edison's vision a reality.
- Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1880 -
- circa 1880
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Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1880
- Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1880 -
- circa 1880
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Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1880
- Thomas Edison and Employees outside Menlo Park Laboratory, 1880 - The names of "star" designers might lodge in our minds, just as the names of innovators like Thomas Edison do. But while the essential vision for a design might arise from an individual, it is typically collaboration that drives design ideas through to results. At the Menlo Park laboratory many experimenters undertook the research that made Edison's vision a reality.
- 1880
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Thomas Edison and Employees outside Menlo Park Laboratory, 1880
The names of "star" designers might lodge in our minds, just as the names of innovators like Thomas Edison do. But while the essential vision for a design might arise from an individual, it is typically collaboration that drives design ideas through to results. At the Menlo Park laboratory many experimenters undertook the research that made Edison's vision a reality.
- Illustration, Preparing the First Practical Incandescent Lamp for Testing at Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory, October 19, 1879 -
- October 19, 1879
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Illustration, Preparing the First Practical Incandescent Lamp for Testing at Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory, October 19, 1879
- Portrait of Charles Batchelor, "First Photograph Made with Incandescent Light," 1880 -
- 1880
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Portrait of Charles Batchelor, "First Photograph Made with Incandescent Light," 1880
- Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1865 -
- circa 1865
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Portrait of Charles Batchelor, circa 1865
- Thomas Edison and Assistants with Phonograph outside the West Orange Laboratory, June 16, 1888 -
- June 16, 1888
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Thomas Edison and Assistants with Phonograph outside the West Orange Laboratory, June 16, 1888