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Thomas Edison

The inventor who industrialized invention: the Menlo Park lab, the phonograph, the practical light bulb, Pearl Street's power grid, the war of the currents with Westinghouse and Tesla, 1,093 patents, and GE.

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Prereqs: James Watt; Electricity & magnetism. Next: Nikola Tesla; General Electric. Sources: Thomas A. Edison Papers (Rutgers); Randall Stross, *The Wizard of Menlo Park* (2007); Jill Jonnes, *Empires of Light*.
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