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Edison

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Ed·i·son  (d-sn)
A community of central New Jersey northeast of New Brunswick. It is mainly residential. Population: 99,500.
Edison, Thomas Alva 1847-1931.
American inventor who patented more than a thousand inventions, among them the microphone (1877), the phonograph (1878), and an incandescent lamp (1879). In New York City he installed the world's first central electric power plant (1881-1882).
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Noun1.EdisonEdison - United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)
Thomas Alva Edison, Thomas Edison


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