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   Thomas Edison

   Mahen Theatre in Brno in what is now the Czech Republic, was the first public building in the world to use Edison's electric lamps, with the installation supervised by Edison's assistant in the invention of the lamp, Francis Jehl. ... The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World.
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   Incandescent light bulb

   In addressing the question "Who invented the incandescent lamp?" historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Wilson Swan and Thomas Edison. ... They made their first commercial installation of incandescent lamps at the Mercantile Safe Deposit Company in New York City in the fall of 1880, about six months after the Edison incandescent lamps had been installed on the steamer Columbia.
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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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   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. ... Electricity, War of Currents, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Electric power, Electric motor, Nikola Tesla, Telluride, Colorado, Reginald Fessenden, Thomas Edison, William Kemmler, Lucien Gaulard, Oliver Shallenberger, polyphase, Diomede Pantaleoni, Nernst lamp, induction motor, Peter Cooper Hewitt
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   Technological and industrial history of the United States

   In 1880, Thomas Alva Edison developed and patented a long-lasting incandescent lamp based upon the previous work of many inventors. ... 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 characters in Time Squad

   They go back to Otto who says that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
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   Thomas Edison in popular culture

   The Schoolhouse Rock song "Mother Necessity" featured Thomas Edison first as a child intending to be an inventor when he grows up "to make a lamp to help my mommy see..Wowee!/What an excellent application of electricity!" and then as a smart, rich man. 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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   Kenyon & Kenyon

   Light development is associated with the names of Charles F. Brush and Thomas A. Edison. ... Edison invented the incandescent electric lamp.
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   List of Edison patents

   Thomas Edison was an inventor who, it is said, accumulated 1500-plus patents worldwide for his inventions. ... U.S. Patent 0,223,898 -- Electric Lamp : Edison's incandescent light bulb invention.
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    History of erotic depictions

    Roman oil lamp depicting coitus more ferarum ... William Kennedy Dickson, while working for Thomas Edison, invented the first practical celluloid film and worked on making the kinetoscope, a peep show machine showing a continuous loop of the film Dickson invented lit by an Edison light source.

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• List of Edison patents,
• History of erotic depictions