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Inventor Thomas Edison
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Mina Edison Portrait
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Edison's electromotograph.
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Nikola Tesla
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T.A. Edison Reading Bronze Tablet
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Nikola Tesla sitting in his Colorado Springs laboratory
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Portrait of Edmund Morris
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Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Edison Being Honored
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Portrait of George Westinghouse
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George Westinghouse
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Vitascope.
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An Advance Machine Company Vitascope Picture Machine
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Thomas Alva Edison (18471931) American physicist and inventor experimenting with electric lamps, even on his wedding day. Engraving, Paris, 1883.
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Execution by electric chair. Kemmler, the first man executed by electric chair, Auburn Prison, USA, 6 August 1890. Alternating Current used: three surges were needed for the execution. Westinghouse apparatus used. From La Nature, Paris, 6 September 1890 .
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VIDEO
MONTAGE Telegram advertisement featuring telephone lines over a map, telegrams shimmying through metal coil, piles of telegrams with overlaying white signatures, end of frayed telephone line, and a man and woman chewing on the end of pens / United Kingdom
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1950s B/W hands holding savings US Savings bonds / United States
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1934 MS electric chair / Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Color television is patented
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Virus, Bacterium, Cell, Flu epidemic and Novel Coronavirus, Sars, Mers, H1N1, Covid19 nCoV spreading microscopic view , Global deadly viral infection, Corona pandemic crisis close up, Microscopic view of influenza virus
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Henry Ford and Clara Bryant Ford playing with toddler in garden, Michigan, USA
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Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John Burroughs and others eating in tent during camping trip, USA
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A light bulb turns on and off.
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Business Challenge Competition Winner and Loser Concept. Man in Hoodie Playing Chess. Black Figures Win Checkmate.
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Decorative table lamp with a classic edison light bulb
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Typhoid Vaccine, Innoculation from Endemic, Pandemic, USA Health and Medicine
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Covid 19 Shelter In Place Los Angeles Suburb of La Canada
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