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    Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 who developed many influential devices including the phonograph, motion picture camera, and long-lasting practical light bulb. After experiments with different filaments, Edison's first successful light bulb test used a carbon filament and lasted 40 hours. He continued improving the design and discovered a carbonized bamboo filament that could last over 1,200 hours. In 1880, Edison patented an electric power distribution system essential to capitalizing on his invention of the electric lamp. He founded the Edison Illuminating Company and in 1882 switched on the first investor-owned electric utility in Manhattan, providing 110V DC power to 59 customers.

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    Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 who developed many influential devices including the phonograph, motion picture camera, and long-lasting practical light bulb. After experiments with different filaments, Edison's first successful light bulb test used a carbon filament and lasted 40 hours. He continued improving the design and discovered a carbonized bamboo filament that could last over 1,200 hours. In 1880, Edison patented an electric power distribution system essential to capitalizing on his invention of the electric lamp. He founded the Edison Illuminating Company and in 1882 switched on the first investor-owned electric utility in Manhattan, providing 110V DC power to 59 customers.

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    Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 who developed many influential devices including the phonograph, motion picture camera, and long-lasting practical light bulb. After experiments with different filaments, Edison's first successful light bulb test used a carbon filament and lasted 40 hours. He continued improving the design and discovered a carbonized bamboo filament that could last over 1,200 hours. In 1880, Edison patented an electric power distribution system essential to capitalizing on his invention of the electric lamp. He founded the Edison Illuminating Company and in 1882 switched on the first investor-owned electric utility in Manhattan, providing 110V DC power to 59 customers.

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    Thomas Alva Edison

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    Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor born in 1847 who developed many influential devices including the phonograph, motion picture camera, and long-lasting practical light bulb. After experiments with different filaments, Edison's first successful light bulb test used a carbon filament and lasted 40 hours. He continued improving the design and discovered a carbonized bamboo filament that could last over 1,200 hours. In 1880, Edison patented an electric power distribution system essential to capitalizing on his invention of the electric lamp. He founded the Edison Illuminating Company and in 1882 switched on the first investor-owned electric utility in Manhattan, providing 110V DC power to 59 customers.

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    Thomas Alva Edison

    (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)

    BY MANUEL ORTIZ DEL RIO


    was an American inventor ,was
    born in Milan, Ohio, and grew up in
    Port Huron, Michigan ., scientist and
    businessman who developed many
    devices that greatly influenced life
    around the world, including the
    phonograph, the motion picture
    camera, and a long-lasting,
    practical electric light bulb.
    ELECTRIC LIGHT :

    Building on the contributions of


    other developers over the
    previous three quarters of a
    century, Edison made significant
    improvements to the idea of
    incandescent light , and wound
    up in the public consciousness as
    "the inventor" of the light bulb.
    After many experiments with platinum and other metal
    filaments, Edison returned to a carbon filament. The first
    successful test was on October 22, 1879;]it lasted 40 hours.
    Edison continued to improve this design and by November 4,
    1879, for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip
    coiled and connected to platina contact wires"
    Although the patent described several
    ways of creating the carbon filament
    including "cotton and linen thread,
    wood splints, papers coiled in various
    ways",

    it was not until several months after the


    patent was granted that Edison and his
    team discovered a carbonized bamboo
    filament that could last over
    1,200 hours.
    Electric power distribution

    Edison patented a system for electricity


    distribution in 1880, which was essential to
    capitalize on the invention of the electric
    lamp. On December 17, 1880, Edison founded
    the Edison Illuminating Company.

    The company established the first


    investor-owned electric utility in 1882
    on Pearl Street Station, New York City. It
    was on September 4, 1882, that Edison
    switched on his Pearl Street generating
    station's electrical power distribution
    system, which provided 110 volts direct
    current (DC) to 59 customers in lower
    Manhattan.
    Earlier in the year, in January 1882 he had switched on
    the first steam generating power station at Holborn
    Viaduct in London. The DC supply system provided
    electricity supplies to street lamps and several private
    dwellings within a short distance of the station.

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