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Writings today seem only to extol Edison almost as a deity. I once read that when Edison was trying to choose a material for the filament of his electric light bulb, he was focused on what we would ...

The Edison and Ford Winter Estates are a home base for history buffs who visit the area. The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the ...

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News about Electric Light Bulbs, ... Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell. A museum in Queens displays his work.

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In the years following Thomas Edison's electric lamp invention (1879) many companies began to make and sell lighting devices. A merger of Edison Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric in 1892 created ...

All very useful devices, no doubt, but hardly on the scale of electric light bulbs, phonographs and motion pictures. Barriett was certainly adept at promoting his own image. When Cincinnati’s entire ...

Financial backers like J.P. Morgan and the Vanderbilt family helped Edison to create the Edison Electric Light Company. He developed a bulb with a platinum filament in 1879 and the summer after ...