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	Sir Joseph Wilson Swan Sir Joseph Wilson Swan 1828-1914, English chemist and physicist. He made an incandescent lamp using a carbon filament (1860), 20 years before Edison's lamp. Noted for important contributions to photography as well, he devised the first commercially practical process for carbon printing, introduced ... Read more
	Edison Edison township (1990 pop. 88,680), Middlesex co., NE N.J., inc. 1870 as Raritan Township, renamed 1954. Edison's varied manufactures include light trucks, chemicals, metal products, electrical and electronic equipment, machinery, and instruments. Raritan Center is the largest industrial park east ... Read more
	Thomas Alva Edison Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931, American inventor, b. Milan, Ohio. A genius in the practical application of scientific principles, Edison was one of the greatest and most productive inventors of his time, but his formal schooling was limited to three months in Port Huron, Mich., in 1854. For several ... Read more
	Fort Myers Fort Myers city (1990 pop. 45,206), seat of Lee co., SW Fla., on the Caloosahatchee River, near the Gulf of Mexico; founded 1850, inc. 1905. It has a tourist trade and light industry and is a shipping point for citrus fruits, winter vegetables, flowers (especially gladioli), and fish. The city grew... Read more
	Louis Jean Lumière Louis Jean Lumière , 1864-1948, and Auguste Lumière , 1862-1954, French inventors, brothers. They invented the Cinématographe, which was patented and demonstrated in 1895. This mechanism was the first to photograph, print, and project moving pictures onto a screen where they ... Read more
	Samuel Insull Samuel Insull , 1859-1938, American public utilities financier, b. London. He arrived in the United States in 1881 and was employed by Thomas A. Edison as a private secretary. He later became prominent in the management of the Edison industrial holdings. By 1907 he overcame competing public utilit... Read more
	Henry Ford Henry Ford 1863-1947, American industrialist, pioneer automobile manufacturer, b. Dearborn, Mich. The Inception of the Ford Motor Company Ford showed mechanical aptitude at an early age and left (1879) his father's farm to work as an apprentice in a Detroit machine shop. He soon returned ... Read more
	Dominica Dominica , officially Commonwealth of Dominica, republic (2005 est. pop. 69,000) consisting of the island of Dominica (290 sq mi/750 sq km), located in the Windward Islands , West Indies. Roseau is the capital and chief port. The island, of volcanic origin, is mountainous and forested, with a wid... Read more
	Moses Gerrish Farmer Moses Gerrish Farmer 1820-93, American inventor, b. Boscawen, N.H. He helped build and maintain some of the pioneer telegraph lines of Massachusetts and experimented in multiple telegraphy. He exhibited (1847) an electric train that carried children, invented a process for electroplating aluminum, ... Read more
	Elisha Gray Elisha Gray 1835-1901, American inventor, b. Barnesville, Ohio. He patented many electrical devices, most of them having to do with the telegraph . His telautograph (1888) for transmitting handwriting and line drawing was widely used. While experimenting in 1875 with the idea of sending musical no... Read more

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	Jazz treats from the `Sweets' Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/14/1992; ; 640 words ; Harry "Sweets" Edison, I was told, had just...was understandable: The man is 76. But he's no...What is embroidery for Edison, one of the most original...players. It's easy to be fooled by Edison's immaculate control...
	Edison, Washington-Lee Win Titles Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/19/1999; ; 657 words ; After the Edison boys soccer team won...had some tough times at Edison, but we've waited...because he is a good man." In the girls final...to seven shots. The Edison boys had difficulty solving...under the crossbar and fooled goalkeeper Andrew Molinares...
	Danger: 10,000 Amps at Work // Electrical Charge Of L's 3rd Rail Can Mean Fast Tragedy Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/24/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...trains and then falling onto the rail. One man was heaved onto the rail by a rival gang...electrocute you, CTA engineers say. Don't be fooled by the birds and rats that leap along the rail, John Junna, a Commonwealth Edison electrical engineer, and others say...They usually are kids - boys and young ...
	Behind the camera: the birth of motion pictures. Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Dickson's work with Edison set the standard for...For the human eye to be fooled into believing that pictures...watch longer films. When Edison ordered Dickson to put...make new films, the two men's working relationship...kinetographic films. Edison suspected that Dickson...
	TIME TO FLIP THE SWITCH? LAWMAKERS WANT TO TURN OFF INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS.(Business) Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 2/18/2007; 700+ words ; ...ultimate respect for the man. Nevertheless, it...leave the legacy of the man they called the Wizard...as innovations go, Edison's incandescent bulb...since the 19th century. Edison didn't actually invent...Levine said. And we've fooled them. Levine's bill...
	NONFICTION; Toy story: Charming book explores the quest for `living' machines.(ENTERTAINMENT) Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 9/22/2002; ; 664 words ; ...from tin and brass, Edison's creation was an unwieldy...selling only 294 dolls, Edison scrapped the rest of...sophisticated that it fooled thousands of spectators...to build an artificial man that could bleed because he became "disgusted." Edison might have felt the same...
	COMPUTERS.(Features) Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); 6/22/1997; 700+ words ; ...polygons. Don't be fooled - the retro-feel actually...takes. THE GENIUS OF EDISON pounds 24.99 Compton...Edison was big news. Edison's workshop produced...characteristic CD introduces Edison the man; the times that shaped...
	A camera reaches 100 Magazine article from: Ideas on Liberty; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...photo contests. Men and women who went...of Photography The man who gave us the Brownie...more than a single man could carry, "a...hour while you fooled around with your...Eastman met Thomas Edison for the first time, each of the elderly men revealed they had...Pretty good film," ...
	HE'S SURLY AND SHE'S A CYBORG Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 4/3/1992; ; 681 words ; ...heard Dick Wolf -- the man behind the deservedly...sidekick, police Sgt. Eve Edison (newcomer Yancy Butler...six weeks." Enter Eve Edison, an apparently human...partner to wail, "Oh, man, you're a machine...Eve: "Don't be fooled. Like my tears, it is...
	Truth is, Social Security system is pyramid scheme Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/18/1987; 700+ words ; ...taking over Commonwealth Edison. Everyone I have talked...thinks this idea is crazy. Edison's bills are too high...12) about the two (men?) from the city's...end of the cat. These men should lose their jobs...person, we can't be fooled so easily. Ken Bertrand...