Which French honor did Thomas Edison receive in 1881?
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Legion of Honour
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What was the nickname of Thomas Edison’s first motion-picture studio?
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Black Maria
Which telegraph system did Thomas Edison develop to send four messages on one wire?
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Quadruplex telegraph
On what date was Thomas Edison’s phonograph patent issued?
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February 19, 1878
Which Edison invention used a rotating disk to display moving images to one viewer?
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Kinetoscope
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What was the nickname of Thomas Edison’s first motion-picture studio?
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Black Maria
Which telegraph system did Thomas Edison develop to send four messages on one wire?
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Quadruplex telegraph
On what date was Thomas Edison’s phonograph patent issued?
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February 19, 1878
What was the name of Thomas Edison’s cement company, founded in 1899?
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Edison Portland Cement Company
What phenomenon earned Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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Gravitational waves