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Ed·i·son

(ĕd′ĭ-sən)

A township of central New Jersey southwest of New York City. It was the site of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratory.

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Edison

(ˈɛdɪsən)

(Biography) Thomas Alva. 1847–1931, US inventor. He patented more than a thousand inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent electric lamp, the microphone, and the kinetoscope

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Ed•i•son

(ˈɛd ə sən)

n.

1. Thomas Alva, 1847–1931, U.S. inventor, esp. of electrical devices.

2. a township in central New Jersey. 70,193.

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Edison - United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)

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It took action quickly and organized the "American Speaking-Telephone Company," with $300,000 capital, and with three electrical inventors, Edison, Gray, and Dolbear, on its staff.

He was scarcely seated in his managerial chair, when the Western Union threw the entire Bell army into confusion by launching the Edison transmitter.

Fortunately, there came, in almost the same mail with Bell's letter, another letter from a young Bostonian named Francis Blake, with the good news that he had invented a transmitter as satisfactory as Edison's, and that he would prefer to sell it for stock instead of cash.

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He was Caesar and Napoleon, Washington and Lincoln, Grant and Edison and Shakespeare.

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I'll have a row of electric lamps up here inside of six months, and you won't know it again, with a thousand candle-power Swan and Edison right here in front of the hall door."

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Out is in: more districts are hiring outside firms for everything from after-school tutoring to writing curricula

Do you know how I might obtain a copy of the issue containing the article, "The Loyalist Ancestors of Thomas Alva Edison'"?.

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