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  2. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).

  3. Edison, the Man - Wikipedia

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    Typical of most Hollywood biopics, much of the film fictionalizes or exaggerates the real events of Edison's life. [2] Edison, the Man was the second of a complementary pair of Edison biopics released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1940. Young Tom Edison, starring Mickey Rooney, was released two months earlier and told the story of Edison's youth. [3]

  4. Motion Picture Patents Company - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Edison with the licensees of the Motion Picture Patents Company (December 19, 1908). The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and effectively terminated in 1915 after it lost a federal antitrust suit, was a trust of all the major US film companies and local foreign-branches (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope ...

  5. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    A watched man never plays; A watched pot/kettle never boils; Absence makes the heart grow fonder; Absolute power corrupts absolutely (John Dalberg-Acton, 1887) [6] Accidents will happen (in the best-regulated families) Actions speak louder than words; Adversity makes strange bedfellows; All good things come to him who waits

  6. The 'Cookie Monster' Study Reveals How Power Corrupts People

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    The 'Cookie Monster' Study Reveals How Power Corrupts People. Business Insider. Updated July 14, 2016 at 7:39 PM. Edgar Alvarez. By Shana Lebowitz

  7. Edisonian approach - Wikipedia

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    Historian Thomas Hughes (1977) describes the features of Edison's method. In summary, they are: Hughes says, "In formulating problem-solving ideas, he was inventing; in developing inventions, his approach was akin to engineering; and in looking after financing and manufacturing and other post-invention and development activities, he was innovating."

  8. List of Edison patents - Wikipedia

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    Edison demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29, 1878. The device recorded on a phonograph cylinder using up-down (vertical) motion of the stylus. Edison's patent specified that the audio recording was embossed. U.S. patent 0,200,993 – Acoustic Telegraphs; U.S. patent 0,200,994 – Automatic-Telegraph Perforator and Transmitter

  9. 85 George Orwell Quotes About Truth, Politics and Power

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    10. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” 11. “Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on – that is, badly.”