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Thomas Alva Edison

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:18.
  • Consumer Technology
  • Industrial/Military Technology
URL: 

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/50.html

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Inventure Place, National Inventors Hall of Fame
Excerpt: 

The National Inventors Hall of Fame honors the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible.

Annotation: 

Site contains a brief biography of Thomas Edison as well as a short essay about the invention of the electric lamp and its impact on society. Part of the National Inventors Hall of Fame's series about its inductees.

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