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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. Electrocuting an Elephant - Wikipedia

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    This is a popular misconception. Edison was never at Luna Park and the electrocution of Topsy took place 10 years after the war of the currents had already ended. Edison was, in fact, no longer attached to General Electric, which had formed from a merger between Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Electric Company in 1892 ...

  4. Mina Miller Edison - Wikipedia

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    Mina Miller Edison (July 6, 1865 – August 24, 1947) was an American community activist and the second wife of inventor and industrialist Thomas Edison. She was a community activist in Fort Myers, Florida , known for her work advancing the use of public spaces and education initiatives.

  5. List of Edison patents - Wikipedia

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    Below is a list of Edison patents. Thomas Edison was an inventor who accumulated 2,332 [ 1 ] patents worldwide for his inventions . 1,093 of Edison's patents were in the United States , but other patents were approved in countries around the globe.

  6. Edison, an Ohio native who moved to West Orange, NJ, in 1886 and whose legendary lab and residence are preserved at the historical park — created the doll in 1890 after he invented the phonograph.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Thomas Edison Conducted the First Job Interview in 1921 ... - AOL

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    Getty By Jacquelyn Smith The job interview was born in 1921, when Thomas Edison created a written test to evaluate job candidates' knowledge. Since then, the process has come a long way. "As the ...

  9. Thousands of original Thomas Edison recordings digitized ...

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    Some 2,400 Edison disc sound recordings, from Thomas Edison’s personal collection, have been digitized and made available online for free streaming.