An extremely creative group called the Fluxus Indians once lived in North America.

The Fluxus Indians created a long list of ideas for future inventions.

The Fluxus Indians developed a concept of ARTIFICIAL CULTURES (see Fluxus--The Modern Art Movement).

Thomas Edison embraced the Fluxus Indian list of ideas for future inventions as the agenda for most of his life's work. The Fluxus Indians had envisioned a variety of remarkable technological devices, and Edison worked to create their existence. Among these inventions are the electric lightbulb, the office duplicating machine, the record player, the movie camera and projector, and the Edison Effect (the basis of electronics). These inventions created modern nightlife, the recording industry, the movie industry, and the electronics industry, virtually the foundation of everyday life and popular culture in the twentieth century.
The Fluxus Indians also anticipated television (They Created The First Television Test Pattern).

The following is a list of Edison's Inventions and Discoveries:

electrical vote recorder.
universal stock ticker and the unison stop.
motograph.
automatic telegraph system.
duplex, quadruplex, sextuplex, and multiplex telegraph systems.
paraffin paper.
carbon rheostat.
Discovered "Etheric Force," an electric phenomenon that is the foundation of wireless telegraphy.
electric pen used for the first mimeographs.
carbon telephone transmitter, making telephony commercially practical. This included the microphone used in radio.
phonograph. This was Edison's favorite invention.
Discovered incandescent light.
Improved dynamos and generators.
Discovered a system of distribution, regulation, and measurement of electric current-switches, fuses, sockets, and meters.
magnetic ore separator.
Discovered the "Edison Effect," the fundamental principle of electronics.
Discovered a system of wireless induction telegraph between moving trains and stations. He also patented similar systems for ship-to-shore use.
motion picture camera.
fluoroscope.
fluorescent electric lamp.
nickel-iron-alkaline storage battery.
electric safety miner's lamp.
Discovered the process for manufacturing synthetic carbolic acid.
Edison served as Chairman of the Naval Consulting Board and did much other work on National Defense.
A piece of vulcanized rubber was made from a Goldenrod strain he developed.

Edison was locked in a fierce battle with Nikola Tesla over which form of electricity would be dominant, Edison's direct current or Tesla's alternating current. He had people hand out flyers touting the dangers of AC. Edison would pay children to bring him stray animals so his aide H.P. Brown, could experiment with alternating current "electricide," killing dogs and cats. Brown said he was doing research on the dangers of AC, and had the press watch him killing several animals. Edison decided that for public relations purposes he would back the bill on death by electrocution proposed. When he testified he stated Westinghouse AC machines were the best way to execute people. When he testified that electrocution would be painless the bill was passed.

The first person to be executed by electrocution was a man named Kemmler. The first jolt of electricity lasted 17 seconds but Kemmler didn't die. Again electricity was administered this time for more than a minute. Kemmler's body began to smoke. All who saw it were appalled.