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   Thomas Edison

   In 1878, Edison applied the term filament to the element of glowing wire carrying the current, although the English inventor Joseph Swan had used the term prior to this. ... 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.
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   Thomas Edison in popular culture

   And Having Writ…, a 1978 alternate universe novel by Donald R. Bensen, features three aliens stranded on Earth whose comic misadventures lead to Edison serving one term as President of the United States following and also preceding two terms for Theodore Roosevelt. ... 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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   Edisonian approach

   This may be a convenient term, but it is an inaccurate and misleading description of the method of invention actually used by Thomas Edison. ... Edison invented by repeatedly trying devices in more complex environments to progressively approximate their final use conditions.
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   Edison Records

   Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877. ... One important early use, in line with the original term for a phonograph as a "talking machine", was in business for recording dictation.
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   History of erotic depictions

   The text is hardly explicit as Cleland wrote the entire book using euphemisms for sex acts and body parts, employing 50 different ones just for the term penis. ... 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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   Etheric force

   An early term invented by Thomas Edison for what is now known to be electromagnetic waves.
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   Dictation machine

   Sometimes when the general term rather than the specific company is referred to, the variation "dictophone" is used. ... Shortly after Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording sound, in 1877, he thought that the main use for the new device would be for recording speech in business settings.
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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. ... However, “information science” as a term is not popularly used in academia until after World War II.
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    Format war

    In 1877 Thomas Edison invented sound recording technology using a tin cylinder record, and soon thereafter mass-marketed the wax "Edison cylinder".

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• Information science,
• Format war