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Best Practice Guide GlossaryBrowse the glossary alphabetically: EDISON, THOMAS ALVA Return to list of termsThe "father" of the American energy industry, Thomas Edison was an American inventor who was born in 1847 and died in 1931. He patented a total of 1,093 inventions - more than any other person in American history. Among the most important were the incandescent electric light bulb (1879), the phonograph (1877) and the movie projector (1893). Source: California Energy Commission |