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This Day in History –October 18th,1931
Starring - Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison dies at his home in West Orange, New Jersey. [-----1-----], Edison used his boyhood experience as a telegraph operator to invent the electric pen, a [-----2-----] of the photocopier, before moving on to the dictaphone, a forerunner of the gramophone, and the incandescent lamp, a forerunner of the [-----3-----]. He also patented or invented modern methods of [-----4-----], the [-----5-----], the movie projector and the electron tube. Thomas Alva Edison, holder of more than 1,000 patents - dead at 84.
His education limited to three months of schooling forerunner light bulb generating and distributing electricity storage battery