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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1997
Page
13
A birthday note honors Thomas Alva Edison born in 1847 in Milan Ohio. The inventor held 1093 patents and popularized the electric light system and the phonograph. It also defines patents as government papers protecting an inventor's rights for a fixed period.
Edison designed the first phonograph in 1877 and demonstrated it by recording Mary had a little lamb. He then achieved a practical electric light in 1879 after many trials, developed a lasting bulb, built the first power plant, and perfected wiring, fuses, meters, and sockets using diverse filaments.
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