Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931)

American inventor and businessman

* February 11, 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
 as Thomas Alva Edison
 October 18, 1931 West Orange, New Jersey, USA


Vintage magazines

Boy's Cinema, nr. 1, 13 December 1919

Books with substantial mentioning of Thomas Alva Edison

Gregg Felsen Tombstones Gregg Felsen
Tombstones, 75 Famous People and Their Final Resting Places
Berkeley, California, 1997

Anthony Slide Aspects of American Film History Prior to 1920 Anthony Slide
Aspects of American Film History Prior to 1920
Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1978

Books with an entry on Thomas Alva Edison

Richard Abel (ed.) Encyclopedia of early cinema Richard Abel (ed.)
Encyclopedia of early cinema
London and New York, 2005

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Articles on Thomas Alva Edison

Peter Decherney, Copyright dupes: piracy and new media in Edison v. Lubin (1903), in: Film History, vol. 19, 2007 pp. 109-124

Edison and the Kinetograph (1895), in: Film History, vol. 11, 1999 pp. 404-407