Thomas Alva Edison
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The wealthy entrepreneur was at the height of his career when Abraham A. Anderson, an American artist based in Paris, began this portrait during Edison\u00e2\u0080\u0099s visit to the city for the Universal Exposition of 1889."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Edison\u00e2\u0080\u0099s inventions were the highlight of the exposition\u00e2\u0080\u0099s \u00e2\u0080\u009cGallery of Machines,\u00e2\u0080\u009d with one pavilion devoted to his electric light and another to his recently improved phonograph, which Anderson chose to picture. The wax cylinders on the table were used for recording. Although Edison patented the first version of the device in 1877, earning himself the title of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cWizard of Menlo Park,\u00e2\u0080\u009d eleven years passed before he achieved sufficient clarity of sound to make it commercially viable. \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhen this was done,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he reported, \u00e2\u0080\u009cI knew that everything else could be done which was a fact.\u00e2\u0080\u009d"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacido en Milan, Ohio"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Thomas Edison se hizo famoso en el mundo por sus inventos, entre ellos el fon\u00c3\u00b3grafo, la l\u00c3\u00a1mpara incandescente y kinetoscopio, un temprano visor de pel\u00c3\u00adculas. El adinerado empresario estaba en la cumbre de su carrera cuando Abraham A. Anderson, artista estadounidense radicado en Par\u00c3\u00ads, comenz\u00c3\u00b3 este retrato en ocasi\u00c3\u00b3n de su visita a dicha ciudad para la Exposici\u00c3\u00b3n Universal de 1889."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Los inventos de Edison fueron la m\u00c3\u00a1xima atracci\u00c3\u00b3n de la \u00e2\u0080\u009cGaler\u00c3\u00ada de M\u00c3\u00a1quinas\u00e2\u0080\u009d de la feria, donde se dedic\u00c3\u00b3 un pabell\u00c3\u00b3n a su iluminaci\u00c3\u00b3n el\u00c3\u00a9ctrica y otro a su reci\u00c3\u00a9n mejorado fon\u00c3\u00b3grafo, mostrado aqu\u00c3\u00ad por Anderson. Los cilindros de cera que vemos sobre la mesa se usaban para grabar. Aunque Edison patent\u00c3\u00b3 la primera versi\u00c3\u00b3n del aparato en 1877, gan\u00c3\u00a1ndose el t\u00c3\u00adtulo de \u00e2\u0080\u009cMago de Menlo Park\u00e2\u0080\u009d, pasaron 11 a\u00c3\u00b1os antes de que lograra la claridad sonora necesaria para hacerlo viable comercialmente. \u00e2\u0080\u009cCuando esto se logr\u00c3\u00b3\u00e2\u0080\u009d, relat\u00c3\u00b3, \u00e2\u0080\u009csupe que todo lo dem\u00c3\u00a1s pod\u00c3\u00ada lograrse, que era un hecho\u00e2\u0080\u009d."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "The artist; his daughter Eleanor A. Campbell, Scarsdale, New York; gift 1942 to NCFA; transferred 1965 to NPG."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of Eleanor A. 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