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  2. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. [5] He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and ...

  3. William Joseph Hammer - Wikipedia

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    He became a laboratory assistant to Thomas Edison in December 1879, and assisted in the development of the incandescent light bulb. [3] He became one of the world's earliest experts in electric power distribution. He also built the world's first advertising sign using incandescent electric lights. [4] He was chief engineer when the English ...

  4. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the battery. 1804: Thomas Young: Wave theory of light, Vision and color theory: 1808: Atomic theory by John Dalton: 1816: English inventor Francis Ronalds built the first working electric telegraph. 1820: Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted accidentally discovered that an electric field creates a ...

  5. Light's Golden Jubilee - Wikipedia

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    Originally, "Light’s Golden Jubilee" was a celebration organized by the General Electric Company, which had absorbed Edison's original business and saw great business value in drawing connections between itself and the illustrious inventor. [2] Thomas Edison and his family, however, believed that the aging inventor was being used and appealed ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    He gave special parties and illuminated his drawing room and dining room. Source: Practical Electrical Engineering, Newnes. Article entitled "The Development of Electric Lighting". 1879 Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan patent the carbon-thread incandescent lamp. It lasted 40 hours. 1880 Edison produced a 16-watt lightbulb that lasts 1500 hours.

  8. List of Edison patents - Wikipedia

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    U.S. patent 0,222,881 – Magneto-Electric Machines : Edison main dynamo. The device's nickname was the "long-legged Mary-Ann". This device has large bipolar magnets and is highly inefficient. U.S. patent 0,223,898 – Electric Lamp : Edison's incandescent light bulb invention. The original spiral carbon-filament is shown and repeatedly ...

  9. 1878 – Thomas Edison, following work on a "multiplex telegraph" system and the phonograph, invents an improved incandescent light bulb. This was not the first electric light bulb but the first commercially practical incandescent light. In 1879 he produces a high-resistance lamp in a very high vacuum; the lamp lasts hundreds of hours. While ...