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Edison's dazzling light display at the 1904 World Fair.

No tale in all the chronicles of American invention would seem to be better known than the story of Thomas Edison’s incandescent electric light.

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Summer 1985 | Volume 1, Issue 1
Edison's dazzling light display at the 1904 World Fair.No tale in all the chronicles of American invention would seem to be better known than the story of Thomas Edison’s incandescent electric light. The electric light, after all, quickly became the epitome of the bright idea, and its creator was…

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