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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 fictional shared universes in film and television

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    Frasier also made an appearance as himself in Girlfriends which connects that universe to this one. Cheers also crossed over with St. Elsewhere, tying it to the Tommy Westphall universe. Wolf Entertainment Universe St. Elsewhere (1982) 1982 – present

  4. The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace - Wikipedia

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    In the episode, Homer, realizing his life is half over and has not accomplished anything, begins to admire Thomas Edison and decides to create inventions to follow in Edison's footsteps and make his life worthwhile. The idea behind "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" came from Dan Greaney, who assigned John Swartzwelder to write the episode.

  5. TV Tropes - Wikipedia

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    TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative works. [7] Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from covering various tropes to those in general media, toys, writings, and their associated fandoms, as well as some non-media subjects such as history, geography ...

  6. List of Edison patents - Wikipedia

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    Most of these inventions were not completely original but improvements of earlier inventions. However, one of Edison's major innovations was the first industrial research and development lab, which was built in Menlo Park and West Orange. Throughout the 20th century, Edison was the world's most prolific inventor. At the beginning of the century ...

  7. Edisonian approach - Wikipedia

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    Edison "Adroitly chose" problems that made use of what he already knew. Edison's method was to invent systems rather than components of systems. Edison did not just invent a light bulb, he invented an economically viable system of lighting including its generators, cables, metering and so on. Edison invented by repeatedly trying devices in more ...

  8. Electric pen - Wikipedia

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    Edison recognized the possible demand for a high-speed copying device after observing the incredible amount of document duplication required of merchants, lawyers, insurance companies, and those of similar occupations. [1] To satisfy this demand, Edison invented the electric pen, which uses a perforating function inspired by the printing telegraph.

  9. Thomas Edison in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The song "Edison" by the Bee Gees from their 1969 album Odessa is a reference about Thomas Edison. Czech poet VítÄ›zslav Nezval wrote a lengthy epic poem titled Edison (1930), in which Edison is celebrated and apostrophed [check spelling] there as symbol of courage in search of meaning of life in modern civilisation. This work is considered to ...