Descripción: IEEE Virtual Museum.
«Much of modern-day technology owes some debt to the work of Thomas Alva Edison. His inventions such as an incandescent lighting system, the phonograph, motion pictures, and nearly countless, lesser known others laid the foundation for the explosive growth of technology that defined the 20th century. His dizzying array of inventions dazzled his contemporaries, who called him a wizard, and frustrated his rivals, who found competing against Edison a serious business.»