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Thomas Edison
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Thomas Alva Edison - Birth
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Patent for automatic vote recorder for legislatures.
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Printing Telegraphs patent
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Automatic Electrical Switch patent
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Thomas Edison, first Marriage
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Type Writing Machines patent
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Stencil Pens patent
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Tin Foil Phonograph
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Speaking Machines patent
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Telephone Call Signal patent
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Speaking telephones patent
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Light Bulb
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Electric Lamp Patent
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Edison Illuminating Company
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First DC electric power station.
Edison opens the first DC (direct current) electric power station on Pearl Street in Manhattan. Within five years, 120 more Edison power stations will open across the United States, delivering DC electricity to customers and dominating the energy market. But DC electricity can only be transmitted about a mile before it starts to lose power. -
End of Marriage, Mary Stilwell
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Second Marriage, Mina Miller
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Motion Picture Projector
Edison invents the kinetoscope, an early motion picture projector—a "machine which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear." -
Thomas Edison - Death