Thomas Edison’s first invention was never used

American Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, received first of his then-record  2,332 patents including 1093 US patents, for an “Electrographic Vote-Recorder”, at the age of 21, which was never used. When presented to the Congress Committee, its chairman said: ” If there are any invention on earth that we don’t want down here that is it “the vote recorder”.

Born February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, U.S., Thomas Edison, developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electrical light bulb. Dubbed “The Wizard of the Menlo Park”, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large scale teamwork to the process of invention, and he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. His first power station was on Pearl Street in Manhattan, New York.