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Edmund (ST all the world as one)

ST. all the world as one of the greatest in- ventors of the 19th century. Among his more important inventions may be named the phonograph, a telephone for long distelegraphy (which he subsequently detelegraphy (which he subsequently detransmission), the carbon telephone transmission), the carbon telephone phone, megaphone, the incandescent elecphone, megaphone, the incandescent electric lamp, the kinetoscope, and a storage battery for street railway cars and automobiles. In 1913 by synchronizing the phonograph and kinetoscope he produced talking moving pictures; but the invention is still imperfect. In 1878 he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French Government, a commander of the Legion in 1889, and was the recipient of the insignia of a grand officer of the Crown of Italy bestowed the same year by King Humbert.