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   Thomas Edison

   AC replaced DC in most instances of generation and power distribution, enormously extending the range and improving the efficiency of power distribution. ... The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World.
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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. ... It's interesting to notice that the formula provides a result in the range between 0.5 and 1 TeV, which is nowaday exactly where it's expected to be found.
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   Incandescent light bulb

   Another historian, Thomas Hughes, has attributed Edison's success to the fact that he invented an entire, integrated system of electric lighting. ... Power ratings for incandescent light bulbs range from about 0.1 watt to about 10,000 watts.
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   Information science

   Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and telephone in 1876 and 1877 respectively, and the American Library Association was founded in Philadelphia. ... Knowledge management comprises a range of practices used by organizations to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge for reuse, awareness, and learning across the organizations.
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   Space: 1889

   In the setting, Thomas Edison invented an "ether propeller" which could propel ships through the universal medium that permeates space, and traveled to Mars in 1870 accompanied by the ether propeller's co-inventor, the Scotsman Armstrong, where they discovered that the planet was inhabited. ... GDW released a range of 25mm miniatures sculpted by Bob Murch of RAFM.
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   Phonograph

   This jukebox-like phonograph was invented by Louis T. Glass and William S. Arnold. ... Thomas Edison
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   Nikola Tesla

   There have even been claims that he invented a "Teslascope" for just such a purpose. ... Thomas Edison
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   History of electromagnetism

   Samuel Morse, inventor of a long-range telegraph; Thomas Edison, inventor of the first commercial electrical energy distribution network; George Westinghouse, inventor of the electric locomotive; Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone and founder of a successful telephone business. ... The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century.
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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. ... Westinghouse also received a contract to set up the first long-range power network, with AC generators at Niagara Falls producing electricity for distribution in Buffalo, New York, 40 kilometers (25 miles) away.
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    List of United States inventions

    The Bell and Edison patents, however, were forensically victorious and commercially decisive. ... Tea bags were invented by Thomas Sullivan around 1908.

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• The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace,
• Incandescent light bulb,
• Information science,
• Space: 1889,
• Phonograph,
• Nikola Tesla,
• History of electromagnetism,
• George Westinghouse,
• List of United States inventions