9 Chapter 8 Timelines

TIMELINE OF TOM'S LIFE 1847 — Born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11 1854 — The Edisons move to Port Huron, Michigan 1859 — Works as a newsboy on the railroad 1863 — Works as a telegraph operator in cities around the U.S. 1868 — Moves to Boston, Massachusetts; invents an electric vote recorder and applies for his first patent 1869 — Moves to New York City and develops a Universal Stock Printer 1870 — Moves to Newark, New Jersey, to start a manufacturing and invention factory 1871 — Marries Mary Stilwell on Christmas Day 1874 — Develops quadruplex telegraph

1876 — Moves to his new Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory to concentrate on inventing 1877 — Develops carbon transmitter to improve the telephone; invents the phonograph 1879 — Invents working electric lightbulb 1882 — Brings electric light to a square mile of New York City from his Pearl Street power station 1884 — Wife, Mary, dies 1886 — Marries Mina Miller and buys Glenmont in West Orange, N.J. 1887 — Builds his West Orange laboratory 1888 — Develops the kinetograph and kinetoscope for motion pictures 1900 — Begins working on storage battery for electric cars 1927 — Works on a natural rubber project for car tires 1928 — Receives a special medal from the U.S. Congress 1931 — Dies on October 18

TIMELINE OF THE WORLD 1844 — First "official" telegram sent from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland 1851 — Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published 1861-1865 — The Civil War 1865 — President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated on April 14 1866 — A cable to send telegrams (and later telephone calls) is laid on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between America and Europe 1869 — The transcontinental railroad joins East and West Coasts

1876 — Alexander Graham Bell invents the first working telephone 1883 — The Brooklyn Bridge linking Manhattan and Brooklyn is completed 1886 — The dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor 1889 — Eiffel Tower is completed in Paris, France 1903 — The Wright Brothers make their first successful flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina 1909 — Admiral Peary is first to reach the North Pole on April 6 1912 — The Titanic sinks on its first voyage between Great Britain and America on April 14 1914-18 — World War I 1920 — The Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote 1921 — Adolf Hitler becomes the Nazi Party leader in Germany 1929 — The stock market crashes on Wall Street in New York City and brings on the

Great Depression