EDISON’S INDUSTRIES AND PATENTS

• Electric light and power
• Electrical Products
• Motion pictures
• Chemicals
• Battery and Portable Energy
• Iron Ore Mining
• Intellectual Property
• Telecommunications
• Sound recording
• Office and copying technology
• Electrochemical technology
• Cement
• Medical (x-rays and electrotherapy)

Edison executed the first of his 1,093 successful U.S. patent applications on 13 October 1868, at the age of 21. He filed an estimated 500–600 unsuccessful or abandoned applications as well.

Edison also received many patents in countries other than the United States. No complete list exists, but Dyer and Martin's 1910 biography, Edison: His Life and Inventions, contains a compilation of 1,239 non-U.S. patents awarded in 34 countries.

A sampling of some of Edison’s more famous patents

Phonograph:
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/00386974.PDF

Electric Lights:
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/00214636.PDF

Electric Lighting system:
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/00369280.PDF

Electric Automobile:
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/00750102.PDF

Alkaline Storage Battery
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/00827297.PDF

Mold for concrete construction
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/01123261.PDF

Magnetic ore Separator
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/00228329.PDF

Moving Picture Apparatus
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/01178062.PDF

Recording Telephone
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/01012250.PDF

Printing Telegraph Apparatus
http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/00113033.PDF

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