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sourceThomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan Ohio he was the seventh child of Samuel and Nancy Edison
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Thomas Edison becomes deaf.
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sourceThomas Edison received a patent for the lightbulb.
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sourceMary Stilwell was born in Newark, New Jersey on September 6, 1855.
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sourceEdison moves to Menlo Park, New Jersey, he built his first ful scale industrial research laboratory combining electrical and chemical laboratories with an experimental machine shop.
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source Thomas Edison created a new lamp that used a carbon filament. This light bulb first lasted for about 14 hours, and later improved that to a stunning 40 hours
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sourceThomas Edison found a bamboo produced that produced a better filament. The improvement made the lamp last 1200 hours
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sourceEdison hires a larger staff to help him develop the components of his electric lighting system for commercial use
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sourceEdison leaves Menlo Park and opens offices in New York City. He establishes factories to make various parts of the electric light and power system and starts construction of the first permanent central power station.
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Edisourceon markets his storage battery, which is used in a host of commercial application after the market for electric automobiles declines.
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sourceFor the first time, half of all households in the United States have electric power.
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sourceThomas Edison lapsed into a coma on October 14, 1931. He died on October 18, 1931, in West Orange, New Jersey.
