Edison,+Westinghouse,+and+Electricity-rindi

====Thomas Alva Edison was possibly the leading pioneer in new technology. He had a lab in New Jersey and patented an invention almost every month. By the time he died, he held more than 1,000 patents. Some of the inventions he created include the phonograph, the electric generator, and most popularly known, the lightbulb. Edison expected to complete an inexpensive lightbulb in abou six weeks; it ended up taking him more than a year. Other inventions his laboratory went on to improve were the battery, the motion picture and the dictaphone.====