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Events on Sunday 18 October 1931 1
1847 – 1931Thomas Edison (1847-1931)Died 18 October 1931, aged 84American inventor and businessman who developed the phonograph, a practical incandescent light bulb and early motion picture equipment. His Menlo Park laboratory pioneered organised industrial research. He held more than a thousand US patents.