Edison, Thomas
- Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
- He also helped create the electric chair
- The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, “Mary had a little lamb.”
- The first sound recording was recently discovered to be made 17 years before Edison’s phonograph. It was recorded by French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who recorded it visually on smoked paper
