He was a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, and set the mold for many other corporate leaders in many other industries.
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Today, the electricity we use is carried along a grid of lines and wires that dates back to Thomas Edison, a grid that can't support the demands of clean energy.
Another pictured a Thomas Edison stand-in.
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But in 1877, Thomas Edison invented a new way to preserve the past.
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Thomas Edison made a film of it, and a future movie mogul, William Fox (he was still Nineteenth Century Fox then), hawked pretzels to the crowd.
Thomas Edison had a similar attitude toward ideas.
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Brian Polite said Wednesday that a trooper interviewed her around 4:30 a.m. that morning at the Thomas Edison service plaza in Woodbridge and took a report that an unknown man had thrown her to the floor of the bus and then onto the road.
Light bulbs have come a long way since Thomas Edison invented them back in 1879.
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Some of the greatest leaders in history failed at one time or another, a list that includes Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Walt Disney, and many others.
Yes, there's opportunity here for someone with Thomas Edison's creativity and a willingness to work on ... asphalt roof shingles.
The list also features a number of such rarely heard recordings as the sound of a talking doll captured by Thomas Edison in 1888 - the earliest known commercial sound recording.
Together, they shared a light bulb moment with the inventor Thomas Edison.
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Over 120 years ago Thomas Edison, founder of GE, created a way to string still photographs together in a way that made those images move in lifelike ways.
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And the coastal city of Gangneung helped pay for a phonograph-shaped building to hold a local businessman's collection of Thomas Edison memorabilia, including hundreds of gramophones and light bulbs.
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People like to tag Kurzweil as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison, " and that's not a stretch considering he's responsible for some of the most useful inventions of the past century.
Largely forgotten for decades in the shadows of inventors like Thomas Edison, Tesla has emerged in recent years as a sort of unsung hero among the science-minded.
It's about being proud to be part of a narrative that includes the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Edison, Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall, Robert Kennedy and Robert Frost, Cesar Chavez and Sonia Sotomayor.
Surrounding his desk are pictures not of his family but of Thomas Edison, Neil Armstrong and Sir Isaac Newton--inspiration for a 38-year-old public company that claims to be spearheading one of history's biggest revolutions in glass.
Barnes constructed a 30-room inn he named Casa Ybel, which lured wealthy Americans such as Thomas Edison and Henry Ford down the coast for great fishing, eternally sunny weather and shell collecting.
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