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In which New Jersey town did Thomas Edison establish his laboratory complex in 1887?
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West Orange
Which current did Thomas Edison champion during the late-19th-century “War of the Currents”?
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Direct current
Which New York power station, opened in 1882, supplied electricity to Edison’s first commercial system?
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Pearl Street Station
What was the name of Edison’s motion-picture camera patented in 1897?
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Kinetograph
What device did Thomas Edison announce after successfully recording and reproducing sound in 1877?
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Phonograph
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Which New York power station, opened in 1882, supplied electricity to Edison’s first commercial system?
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Pearl Street Station
What was the name of Edison’s motion-picture camera patented in 1897?
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Kinetograph
In which Ohio town was Thomas Edison born in 1847?
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Milan
Which inventor is credited with creating the World Wide Web in 1989?
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Tim Berners-Lee
Which inventor created the first permanent photograph, made in France around 1826?
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Nicéphore Niépce
Which inventor created the first successful synthetic plastic, Bakelite, in 1907?
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Leo Baekeland
Which invention did Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil patent in 1942 to help guide torpedoes?
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Frequency-hopping spread spectrum