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Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

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Thomas Edison

American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early…
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Incandescent light bulb

Electric light bulb with a resistively heated wire filament

An incandescent light bulb, also known as an incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe, is an electric light that produces illumination by Joule heating a filament until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb that is either evacuated or filled with inert gas to…
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Menlo Park, New Jersey

Populated place in Middlesex County, New Jersey, US

Menlo Park is an unincorporated community within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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