Ten Best Inventions Of Thomas Edison

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There's never been anyone like Edison with his 1,093 patents and his 'Invention Factory' in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he boasted he would invent something minor every ten days and a 'Big Trick' every six months. Here are Edison's ten best Big Tricks:

Phonograph

Durable light bulb (40 hours)

Electrical Vote Recorder

Quadruplex, sextuplex and multiplex telegraph

Carbon microphone

Electricity distribution system

Fist commercial fluoroscope (for X-Ray examinations)

Stock ticker

Kinetograph (motion picture camera)

Kinetoscope (peep hole viewer)

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Electricity distribution system?
Really? I think any electricity distribution people reading this would not consider Edison's work to have been that important.
Perhaps you could add his works works such as killing animals with ac to prove his dc system was safer.

whats a multiplex telegraph?

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