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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. The electric pen was developed as an offshoot of Edison's telegraphy research.
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   List of United States inventions

   While using paraffin in an attempt to invent and improve telegraphy tape, Thomas Alva Edison discovers a way to make duplicate copies of documents instead. ... Lewis E. Waterman was an American inventor and insurance salesman who developed a relatively leak-proof fountain pen; he patented his new invention in 1884 and revolutionized writing.
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   List of inventors

   Laszlo Biro, (1899-1985), Hungary — modern ballpoint pen ... Lewis Latimer, (1848-1928), — worked with Thomas Edison and patented an improved lightbulb manufacturing process
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   Thomas Paine

   Mechanical aptitude and intellectual originality made him saint of Thomas Edison's devotion. ... In the U.K., a statue of Thomas Paine (quill pen and inverted copy of Rights of Man in hand), stands in King Street, Thetford, Norfolk, his birth place.
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   Diffusion of technology in Canada

   GE Canada, founded by Thomas Edison in Peterborough in 1892, contributed to heavy manufacturing techniques through the fabrication of large electric generators and electric motors at that facility, which were used to supply the rapidly growing Canadian market for electrical generating equipment. ... The ball point pen was marketed in the US in October in 1945 and in Canada shortly thereafter.
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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.
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   Alexander Graham Bell

   While working that summer in Brantford, Bell experimented with a "phonautograph," a pen-like machine that could draw shapes of sound waves on smoked glass by tracing their vibrations. ... Thomas Edison
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   Francis Jehl

   When Jehl worked for Lowrey he was responsible for making multiple copies of a wide range of documents pertaining to Edison's electric pen. ... Thomas Edison
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   Electrical telegraph

   Morse and Vail's first telegraphs used a pen and paper system to record the marks of the Morse Code, and interpreted the marks visually however, operators soon realized that they could "read" the clicking of the receiver directly by ear. ... Another advancement in telegraph technology occurred on August 9, 1892, when Thomas Edison received a patent for a two-way telegraph (U.S. Patent 0,480,567 , "Duplex Telegraph") .
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    Timeline of historic inventions

    1870: Stock ticker: Thomas Alva Edison ... 1938: Ballpoint pen: Laszlo Biro

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