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   Thomas Edison

   This allowed him to make his early fortune with the stock ticker, the first electricity-based broadcast system. ... The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World.
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   Ticker tape

   ↑ Who Invented the Stock Ticker? ... Thomas Edison's Ticker Tape Patent
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   Film Fest: Tears of a Clone

   This is appropriate, since the original Thomas Edison invented the film projector.
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   Edison Records

   Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877.
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   George Westinghouse

   Thomas Edison was one of his main rivals due to the fact that they were both very intelligent inventors. ... In 1878 Edison invented an improved incandescent light bulb, and realized the need for an electrical distribution system to provide power for lighting.
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   Technological and industrial history of the United States

   The telegraph was used to dispatch news from the fronts of the Mexican-American War, coordinate Union troop movements during the Civil War, relay stock and commodity prices and orders between markets on ticker tape, and conduct diplomatic negotiations after the Transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1866. ... 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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   The British Empire in fiction

   The "Space 1889" audio dramas (2005 onwards) are based on the roleplaying game where Thomas Edison invented a means of traveling between planets and the major European powers have each established colonies in space.
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   Edison, New Jersey

   Thomas Edison (1847-1931), inventor, the township's namesake ... Helped pioneer open heart surgery with Dr. DeBakey.
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    1870 in science

    The stock ticker is invented by Thomas Alva Edison.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Thomas Edison,
• Ticker tape,
• Film Fest: Tears of a Clone,
• Edison Records,
• George Westinghouse,
• Technological and industrial history of the United States,
• List of characters in Time Squad,
• The British Empire in fiction,
• Edison, New Jersey,
• 1870 in science