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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. 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.

  4. List of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen characters

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    The Galley-Wag's appearance in this series caused some commotion among readers as the original name given to the character by Upton, "Golliwogg", mutated into a racial slur and his appearance into a racial stereotype (both to Upton's disdain [1]) after unauthorized use of this originally kind and heroic character by other authors (such as Enid ...

  5. Hear Thomas Edison's talking doll that scared kids in 1890

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    Collecter, Ward Harris, holds a talking doll with a metal torso that was invented by Thomas Edison, in San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 9, 1949. Harris holds in his other hand the inside mechanicals of ...

  6. The Men Who Built America - Wikipedia

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    The Men Who Built America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Built America in some international markets) is an eight-hour, four-part miniseries docudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel in autumn 2012, and on the History Channel UK in fall 2013.

  7. 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 ...

  8. What's in our names? How our streets and landmarks tell our ...

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    His son, Thomas Van Renssalaer Gibbs, was a co-founder of FAMU in 1887. ... He became known as Blount because he reportedly shared character traits with William Blount, a Tennessee governor, U.S ...

  9. Edisonade - Wikipedia

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    The character first appeared in 1891, and was the subject of 121 stories. [5] Thomas Edison himself was the main character in Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss (1898), a sequel to Fighters from Mars (in the form of a revenge fantasy) an unauthorized and altered adaptation of Wells's The War of the Worlds.