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in 1859 his quick actions at The Grand Trunk railway saved the life of a child from being trampled to death by a train. |
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One of the most successful of his inventions was a new carbon microphone which finally made Alexander Bell’s new “telephone” device loud enough and clear enough for practical use. (This same technology was still widely used in telephones right up to the 1980's.) |
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Edison moved his laboratory to Menlo Park |
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He created the most reliable electric light bulb his time. |
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He invented the first Phonograph. |
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He was one of the first to apply the principle of massproduction |
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He opened another generation station |
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He opened more Edison companies to handle each part of the electricity supply chain. |
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In 1982, Edison General Electric Company went through amerger and became General Electric. |
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He immediately went on to develop some of the first motion picture technologies, producing not just the equipment or the projectors, but also the content, in the form of hundreds of short films. |
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He opened more Edison companies to handle each part of the electricity supply chain. |
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On September 4, 1882 Thomas Edison opened the firstcommercial power station. It provided electricity for homes within 1 squaremile. |
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He built a lab at West Orange, and it opened in November1887mile. |
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