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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. List of Edison patents - Wikipedia

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    In the second hundred patents, Edison continues his work with the telegraph. He also starts to patent electrical distribution and the light. U.S. patent 196,747, Stencil-Pens. Later adapted to be a Tattoo machine. Patent drawing for Edison's phonograph, 18 May 1880. U.S. patent 223,898. U.S. patent 0,178,221 – Duplex Telegraphs (1876)

  4. Francis Robbins Upton - Wikipedia

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    There he met Elizabeth F. Perry, later to become his wife. Francis Upton also attended Berlin University and Princeton University. Francis was the first ever to officially receive his doctoral degree from Princeton University. Upton was then hired by Thomas Edison. One of Edison's biographers described the hired man thus:

  5. 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 ...

  6. Edward Hibberd Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Edward Hibberd Johnson (January 4, 1846 – September 9, 1917) [1] was an inventor and business associate of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison.He was involved in many of Edison's projects, and was a partner in an early organization which evolved into General Electric.

  7. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    The weaknesses of the SECAM system be fixed in later modifications of the standard for the most part. 1958 By merging the Edison patents and the Berliner, the Blumlein stereo recording method becomes commercially viable. The company Mercury Records launches the first stereo record on the market.

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  9. War of the currents - Wikipedia

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    The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...