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   Thomas Edison

   Thomas Edison and Harold Brown provided the AC generators needed for the first working electric chairs. ... The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World.
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   List of duplicating processes

   This is a partial list of duplicating processes used in business and government from the Industrial Revolution forward. ... Electric pen, invented by Thomas Edison
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   Thomas Edison in popular culture

   In the cartoon series Clone High, Thomas Edison's clone is shown as a short, sniveling nerd who seems to spend most of his time working with A.V equipment (a reference to the fact that Edison invented the projector). ... Later Edison was falsely given credit for Homer's electric hammer invention.
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   Edison

   Edison is the last name of Thomas Edison (1847–1931), an American inventor. ... Electric utility companies
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   Electric pen

   Thomas Edison's electric pen, part of a complete outfit for duplicating handwritten documents and drawings, was the first electric motor driven office appliance produced and sold in the United States.
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   George Westinghouse

   In 1878 Edison invented an improved incandescent light bulb, and realized the need for an electrical distribution system to provide power for lighting. ... Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
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   War of Currents

   In the "War of Currents" era (sometimes, "War of the Currents" or "Battle of Currents") in the late 1880s, George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison became adversaries due to Edison's promotion of direct current (DC) for electric power distribution over alternating current (AC) advocated by Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla. ... Edison had invented a meter to allow customers to be billed for energy proportional to consumption, but this meter only worked with direct current.
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   Edison Records

   Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877. ... | Founder | Thomas Edison Jesse H. Lippincott |
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   The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

   Later, when the family has a party to honor him, Lisa mentions that Thomas Edison invented the film projector as well as many other inventions Homer uses. ... Unfortunately for Homer, he accidentally leaves his electric hammer at the museum.
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    Electric car

    Thomas Edison and an electric car in 1913 (courtesy of the National Museum of American History) ... Faced with chronic fuel shortage on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian electrical engineer Waseem Othman al-Khozendar invented in 2008 a way to convert his car to run on 32 electric batteries.

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