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   Thomas Edison

   Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light. ... The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World.
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   Edisonian approach

   Edison did not just invent a light bulb, he invented an economically viable system of lighting including its generators, cables, metering and so on. Edison invented by repeatedly trying devices in more complex environments to progressively approximate their final use conditions.
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   List of characters in Time Squad

   They go back to Otto who says that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
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   George Westinghouse

   Thomas Edison was one of his main rivals due to the fact that they were both very intelligent inventors. ... In 1878 Edison invented an improved incandescent light bulb, and realized the need for an electrical distribution system to provide power for lighting.
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   Incandescent light bulb

   Original carbon-filament bulb from Thomas Edison ... In 1872 A. N. Lodygin invented an incandescent light bulb.
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   Thomas Edison in popular culture

   His first major appearance was in a sketch in which he comes up with the light bulb while his nephew (played by Loud Kiddington and his friends fool around in his office. ... In the cartoon series Clone High, Thomas Edison 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).
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   Precursors of film

   1861 - The Kinematoscope is invented. ... 1878 - George Eastman manufactures photographic dry plates the same year Thomas Edison invents the first electric incandescent light bulb, archaically known as a magic lantern.
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   Technological and industrial history of the United States

   Like Bell, Edison immediately set about commercializing his invention through a shrewd business plan involving companies that would manufacture the whole technological system upon which the "light bulb" would depend - generators (Edison Machine Company), cables (Edison Electric Tube Company), generating plants and electric service (Edison Electric Light Company), sockets, and bulbs. ... In 1883, a Serbian immigrant, Nikola Tesla, a protégé of Edison's, invented an electric motor which greatly simplified electric motors and licensed the invention to the Westinghouse Corporation.
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   List of common misconceptions

   Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet, Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb, and Henry Ford did not invent the automobile or the internal combustion engine. ... ↑ David Lorenzen, Who Invented Hinduism?
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    Common misconceptions

    Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet, Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb, and Henry Ford did not invent the automobile or the internal combustion engine. ... ↑ David Lorenzen, Who Invented Hinduism?

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• List of characters in Time Squad,
• George Westinghouse,
• Incandescent light bulb,
• Thomas Edison in popular culture,
• Precursors of film,
• Technological and industrial history of the United States,
• List of common misconceptions,
• Common misconceptions