Edison Wood Products, Inc. Issued to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated - 1930 dated Autographed Stock Certificate

Stock issued to Thomas A. Edison Incorporated and signed twice by the treasurer, H.F. Miller, secretary to Thomas Edison. 5 cents revenue stamp on back! Certificate #7!

Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931). Edison began his education later than usual because of a childhood illness. His attention frequently drifted, which ultimately led to the conclusion of his three months of formal education. His mother, who had been a school teacher in Canada, gladly assumed the responsibility of educating her son. She motivated him and taught him how to read and conduct experiments. He later reflected, "My mother was the making of me." Having been partially deaf since his teenage years, he secured a position as a telegraph operator through the father of a friend. Edison's hearing impairment proved beneficial as it muffled surrounding noises and prevented him from hearing the telegrapher seated beside him.

One of his early mentors was a fellow telegrapher and inventor named Franklin Leonard Pope, who permitted the then destitute youth to reside and work in the basement of his home in New Jersey. Edison submitted his first patent application for the electric vote recorder on October 28, 1868. Thomas Edison commenced his journey as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and various enhanced telegraphic devices. However, the invention that initially brought Edison widespread recognition was the phonograph in 1877. Its reception by the public was so astonishing that it seemed almost magical.

Among his 1,093 different inventions are numerous types of printing telegraphs, galvanic batteries, stencil and perforating pens, phonographs, electricity, the light bulb, telephones, electric motors, fruit preservation methods, vacuum apparatus, electric and locomotive railways, devices for displaying moving figures, film for motion picture machines, automobiles, and the list continues indefinitely. At the time of his passing, he was engaged in developing an alternative rubber supply for tire production for his friend, Henry Ford. Edison's significant contribution was the establishment of the Menlo Park research laboratory in New Jersey. This was the first facility created with the explicit aim of fostering continuous technological innovation and advancement.

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