Illuminating The Path Of Progress

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snacks to the passengers
on the train between Port Huron and Detroit. Edison bought a used printing
press in 1862 and published the Grand Trunk Herald for passengers. It was the
first newspaper published on a train.
When Edison was fifteen, he was taught Morse code and became a manager
of a telegraph office. Edison got the idea for his first invention from
working here. His first inventions were the transmitter and receiver for the
automatic telegraph. At 21, Edison produced his first major invention, a stock
ticker. In 1869, when Edison was twenty-two, he patented his first invention
and advertised that he would devote his time to bringing out his inventions.
The first patent received by Edison was for a vote recorder. Years later
Edison's design was put in use by state legislatures for use by the public in
general elections. By the age of twenty-three Edison owned two factories to
manufacture telegraphic equipment and had money to pursue his research.
On December 25, ...

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cheap, safe and reliable. It took Edison just over a year to
invent a practical light bulb. One of his bulbs burned for 1,589 hours. He
gave a public demonstration of his lighting system by lighting the town of Menlo
Park. He later established the Edison Electric Light Company. This would own
all of Edison's electrical inventions. Then came the challenge of creating a
system for distributing electric power over a wide area from a central
generating station. Edison applied for nearly 40 patents to cover the devices
he invented for his electricity distribution system. Later that year, New
York's first power station was opened. By the end of 1883, Pearl Street was
lighting 10,000 ...

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