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  2. 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."

  3. List of Edison patents - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the 20th century, Edison was the world's most prolific inventor. At the beginning of the century, he held 736 U.S. patents. His final count was 1,093 U.S. patents, including 1084 utility patents (patents for inventions) and 9 artistic design patents. It was not until June 17, 2003 that he was passed by Japanese inventor Shunpei ...

  4. 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).

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of Nikola Tesla patents - Wikipedia

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    Cheney, Margaret, Tesla: man out of time, ISBN 0-7432-1536-2; The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla by Jim Glenn, 1994. The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla (ISBN 978-1-566-19266-8) is a book compiled and edited by Jim Glenn detailing the patents of Nikola Tesla.

  7. How the 173-year-old glassmaker behind Edison’s light bulb ...

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    A photo of the original purchase order from Thomas Edison to Corning for the glass encasement for Edison’s lightbulb in 1880. CEO Wendell Weeks keeps the purchase order framed in his office as a ...

  8. Nikola Tesla Lived 24 Years Longer Than He Should Have. Did ...

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    The (Delayed) Death of Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla didn’t live forever. The inventor died under-appreciated, alone, and in poverty on January 7, 1943, from a coronary thrombosis, according to ...

  9. 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 ...