Edison worked out of newark.
Where he developed telegraph-related products for
both Westem Union Telegraph company (Then the industry leader) and its rivals.
He married 16 year old Mary Stillwell.
despite his prolific telegraph work,Edison encountered financial difficulties by late 1875,but with the help of his father was able to build a laboratory and machine shop in Menlo Park,New Jersey,12 miles south of Newark.
- developed the carbon transmitter, a device that improved the audibility of the telephone by making it possible to transmit voices at higher volume and with more clarity.
-his work with the telegraph and telephone led him to invent the phonograph,which recorded sound as indentations on a sheet of paraffin-coated paper.
-When the paper was moved beneath a stylus, the sounds were reproduced .
-The device made an
immediate
splash,
though it took years before it could be produced and sold commercially.