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   Thomas Edison

   The City Hotel, in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, was the first building to be lit with Edison's three-wire system. ... The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World.
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   Photokinema

   Photo-Kinema (some sources say Phono-Kinema) was a sound-on-disc system for motion pictures invented by Orlando Kellum. ... Earlier crude sound-on-disc systems had been invented 1894-1914 by Thomas Edison (Kinetophone, Kinetophonograph), Cameraphone in the US, Gaumont (Chronomegaphone) and Pathe in France, and a few British systems.
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   Thomas Edison in popular culture

   Thomas Edison has appeared in popular culture as a character in novels, films, comics and video games. ... 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).
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   Edison

   Edison is the last name of Thomas Edison (1847–1931), an American inventor. ... Edison screw, a system of light bulb connectors developed by Edison
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   Edison Studios

   Edison Studios was an American motion picture production company owned by the Edison Company of inventor Thomas Edison. ... Edison's assistant William Kennedy Dickson, who supervised the development of Edison's motion picture system, produced the first Edison films intended for public exhibition, 1893–95.
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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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   Edisonian approach

   Edison's method was to invent systems rather than components of systems. ... His electric lighting system was designed to be an economic competitor with gas lighting.
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   Commonwealth Edison

   ... of Commonwealth Edison was the Isolated... a subsidiary of Thomas Edison's company to sell small Edison-patented generators and lighting systems, each serving one... In 1882, this company was taken over by the Western Edison Light Company,... s role as Edison's agent in Chicago, but also to develop a central station electric system.
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   Timeline of United States inventions

   Thomas Alva Edison invented the mimeograph in 1875. ... Thomas Edison's tube recording system produces distorted sound because of gravity's pressure on the playing stylus.
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    George Westinghouse

    In 1869 at age 22 he invented a railroad braking system using compressed air. ... He investigated Edison's scheme, but decided that it was too inefficient to be scaled up to a large size.

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