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Thomas A. Edison Signed Edison Phonograph Works Stock Certificate 200 Shares May 18,, 1888
In his early years inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) . In 1879 he made commercially practicable the incandescent lamp. Other inventions of his included the kinetoscope, ore-mill machinery, the storage battery, and the dictating machine. He invented the phonograph, his greatest single achievement from the viewpoint of inventive imagination. In 1888, he founded the Edison Phonograph Works of New Jersey. This stock certificate is dated 1888, the very year the company was founded and was issued to R. L. Cutting". Edison signs this stock certificate as president on the front.
Thomas Edison Signed Phonograph stock
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