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    lighting. There is lighting in homes, cars, boats, planes, and many more. The point is, with out the work of Edison and his inventors the technology that the world has today would not be as advanced. The telegraph was beneficial to anyone who had the need to communicate with someone. The telegraph could be transmitted over a long distance. This is helpful with the government because it lets important people communicate with each other. This was very helpful for people for people who need…

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    The Warlock Of Menlo Park

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    His list of inventions includes the phonograph, vitascope (paved the way for the first silent motion pictures), dictaphone, storage battery, and mimeograph. His most prominent achievement would be inventing the first known practical incandescent electrical lightbulb and found a way to generate and distribute electricity. This lead to Edison founding a company that could help deliver this utility and this company would later become General Electric Corporation. However, Edison wasn’t the only…

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    and writing. The telephone was invented on March 10, 1876, by Alexander Graham Bell in Ontario, Canada. Bell established a school for the deaf and taught in speech and vocal physiology. While teaching he started to experiment with transmitting telegraph messages over a single wire, which began…

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    Thomas on the side of the head. This may have furthered his hearing loss. He was kicked off the stations. He saved a 3-year-old from being run over by an errant train, the child’s father was grateful. He rewarded him by teaching him to operate a telegraph. So by age 15 he was able to work…

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    Union asked him to create a communication device to compete with Bell’s telephone. He never did but by December of 1877, Thomas Alva Edison invented a device for recording sound called the phonograph. While he was working on improvements to the telegraph and the telephone he figured out a way to record sound on tinfoil coated cylinders. He created a machine with two needles, one for recording and one for playback. When Thomas Alva Edison spoke into the mouthpiece, the sound vibrations of his…

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    father of cellular phone, graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. After a stint with the U.S. Navy, Marty joined Motorola in 1954 and earned his master’s from IIT in 1957. It is important to recall that the idea of a mobile phone was already afloat during this time. American Telephone & Telegraph Company…

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    Conceived on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison ascended from humble beginnings to fill in as an innovator of significant innovation. Setting up a lab in Menlo Park, a portion of the items he created incorporated the transmit, phonograph, the primary monetarily handy brilliant electric light, soluble capacity batteries and Kinetograph (a camera for films). He kicked the bucket on October 18, 1931, in West Orange, New Jersey. At age 12, Edison embarked to give a lot of that…

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    something helpful towards other people.So he moved futher away to set up a workshop to continue the study of the human voice.After getting far with that expirement he then moved to Boston to work on something that would allow the device that would telegraph several messages.He began studying more and researching more about how to connect things.He finally found out how to transfer voice by connecting wires into the harmonic telegrpah to create the first telephone.Something else caught his eye,…

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    newspapers on trains. He later on became a telegraph operator after saving the train station agent’s daughter from an oncoming train. At the age of 21, Edison moved to Louisville Kentucky in 1866 and became an employee of western union. Starting in 1872, Thomas Edison worked on the quadruplex telegraph system.…

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    his name is Granville Woods. B) On blackpast.org, Granville T. Woods was a prominent inventor and electrical engineer who invented the multiplex railway telegraph which allowed communication between moving trains and train depots. A year later he developed a system for overhead electric conducting which helped power locomotives. C)Thomas Edison claimed that the invention of the multiplex telegraph was his and filed a lawsuit to support his claims stated on blackpast.org, but Granville T. Woods…

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