England was the leading European colonial power and had already established much of its overseas empire by the beginning of the 19th century. France was second, with its holdings in Southeast Asia and in North Africa, both. of these being established during the 19th century.
Thomas Edison married Mary Stilwell on December 25, 1871 (he was 24, she was 16).   She died on August 9, 1884.   He was married a second time, on February 24, 1886, at â¦the age of 39. His second wife's name was Mina Miller.
Edison built a research facility in Menlo Park, N.J., in 1876. There, Edison and his employees spent long hours creating well-known inventions such as the electric light bulb, the phonograph and an improved telephone transmitter. In 1887, Edison built a new facility in West Orange, N.J. The first major invention created at the facility was motion pictures. Edison and his team created a motion picture camera, called the kinetograph, and a machine for watching the movies, called the kinetoscope, which allowed one person at a time to watch the movie.