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February 11, 1847 – Inventor Thomas Alva Edison is born in Milan. Inventor of the light bulb, phonograph, telephone and 1,000 other products, Edison would become known as the Wizard of Menlo Park. A scroll from his first phonograph is in the cornerstone of St. Francis de Salles Church in Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, where a then-unknown Edison recorded the voices of four former Cincinnati mayors at the church dedication in 1888.
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