Thomas Edison is most commonly associated with inventing the electric light bulb, but that singular piece of trivia does not do justice to Edison' s unrivaled contributions to the Industrial Revolution in the United States  Often called The Wizard of Menlo Park, Edison applied cutting-edge business principles, like mass production, to the field of science for the first time, including creating the world' s first industrial research laboratory  Edison also developed a power grid capable of generating and distributing power to homes and factories
A prolific inventor, Edison invented the phonograph and motion picture camera, and he held more than one thousand patents in the United States
Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor.