1. United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931); [syn: Edison, Thomas Edison, Thomas Alva Edison]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Thomas Alva Edison
n 1: United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph
and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the
Kinetoscope (1847-1931) [syn: Edison, Thomas Edison,
Thomas Alva Edison]