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Edison's dazzling light display at the 1904 World Fair.

No tale in all the chronicles of American invention would seem to be better known than the story of Thomas Edison’s incandescent electric light.

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Summer 2020 | Volume 26, Issue 2
Born in Massachusetts in 1848, Latimer served in the U.S. Navy and worked as a patent illustrator before authoring a number of inventions himself. “Like the light of the sun, it beautifies all things on which it shines, and is no less welcome in the palace than in the humblest home,” wrote Lewis…
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Edison's dazzling light display at the 1904 World Fair.No tale in all the chronicles of American invention would seem to be better known than the story of Thomas Edison’s incandescent electric light. The electric light, after all, quickly became the epitome of the bright idea, and its creator was…

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