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Celebrate the unique personality and drive of Thomas Alva Edison at the Edison Museum where over 1,400 Edison artifacts are stored.
Listen to Edison's first recording and his favorite song and tap out Morse code on the machine Edison invented. Photographs and quotes decorate the walls and over 60 artifacts tells the story of this innovative man.
To mark the year 2000, Time Magazine, famous for naming a "Man of the Year," looked back 1,000 years and ranked these people in order of importance:
- Thomas Edison
- Christopher Columbus
- Martin Luther
- Galileo Galilei
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Isaac Newton
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Louis Pasteur
- Charles Darwin
- Thomas Jefferson
The citation for Thomas Edison reads:
Because of him, the millennium will end in a wash of brilliant light rather than in torchlit darkness as it began. In 1879, Thomas Edison gave humans the power to create light without fire, by inventing a long-lasting, affordable incandescent lamp. Among life's many conveniences we can take for granted, thanks in part to him: copiers, radio, movies, TV, phones (he improved Bell's). On the night after his funeral, Americans dimmed their lights for the man who lit up the world.
The Edison Museum is housed in the 1929 Travis Street Substation that once supplied power to farms in the Beaumont area. Feel the presence of greatness, determination and success at the only museum this side of the Mississippi dedicated to Thomas Alva Edison.
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