Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and businessman QC ride their three seater tandem

ride their three seater tandem bicycle in London

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and was designed to show that General Motors could compete in the sports car market with European manufacturers such as MG and Jaguar

'A New Judgement of Paris'

Plate 353 from A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and businessman QC ride their three seater tandemThomas Alva Edison (1847 1931), American inventor and businessman, 1926. Edison developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. Dubbed The Wizard of Menlo Park by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research