What made Thomas Edison famous?

Thomas Edison was famous for inventing the telephone transmitter, light bulb and fluoroscope

Answer:

He was primarily known and acheived fame as an inventor. His lab in Menlo Park was the first think tank and product development facility. A list of Edison's more important inventions is listed below with date of the patent. Strangely the electric light bulb was not an Edison invention. He bought that patent and improved it.

1868 Electrical vote recorder.

1869 Universal stock ticker, Unison stop.

1872 Motograph, Several telegraph systems, Paraffin paper, Carbon rheostat.

1876 Electric pen

1877 Phonograph.

1879 Improved dynamos and generators.

1885 Wireless induction telegraph

1891 Motion picture camera.

1896 Fluoroscope, Fluorescent electric lamp.

1900 Nickel-iron-alkaline storage battery.

1914 Electric safety miner's lamp, Synthetic carbolic acid.