Print Article. An argument can be made that Benjamin Franklin may be the most famous American inventor, but without a doubt the most prolific and influential American inventor was Thomas Alva Edison. It is indeed difficult to imagine the modern world without scientific contributions and inventions of Edison.
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Commonly used in the United States until the 1990s (and commonly known as lever machines), direct recording voting systems are mechanical systems to tabulate votes. This was the first voting technology commercialized in the United States.
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A document ballot voting system records votes, counts votes, and produces a tabulation of the vote count from votes cast on paper cards or sheets. A document ballot voting system can allow for manual or electronic tabulation.
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In 1881, Anthony Beranek of Chicago patented the first voting machine appropriate for use in a general election in the United States. Beranek's machine presented an array of push buttons to the voter, with one row per office on the ballot, and one column per party.
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Traditionally, a voting machine has been defined by the mechanism the system uses to cast votes and further categorized by the location where the system tabulates the votes. Voting machines have different levels of usability, security, efficiency and accuracy.
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Thomas Alva Edison Was Born in 1847 Early Years Year Invention Description 1863 Automatic Telegraph Repeater Edison's first invention at 16. It sent telegraph signals between unmanned stations, allowing almost anyone to easily and precisely translate code at his own speed and convenience. Edison never patented this invention. 1869 Electric Vote Recorder Edison's first patent. Permitted a yes or no vote via one of two switches. Washington congressmen were not interested in the device and the invention was a failure (U.
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Nevertheless, Edison did have failures, including his failed support of DC power over AC power, but Edison never let failure stand between him and success. Known as the Wizard of Menlo Park, Edison received over one thousand US patents, the first of which was filed on October 13, 1868, when he was the tender age of 21. Perhaps Edison’s most famous inventions were the phonograph, motion pictures and the light-bulb.
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Edison executed a patent application for his electric vote recorder, for which he later is issued his first patent. Edison invents the quadruplex telegraph, ownership of which is disputed by Western Union and Jay Gould’s Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company.
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Edison’s first patented invention was the Electrical Vote Recorder, a device intended to be used by Elected bodies such as the US Congress to speed the election process. This he patented in 1868. Edison could not find a buyer for his first invention.
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After voting, the voter may place the ballot in a ballot box, or the ballot may be fed into a computer vote tabulating device at the precinct. The idea of voting by punching holes on paper or cards originated in the 1890s and inventors continued to explore this in the years that followed.
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