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Thomas Edison received such a patent, only to have it revoked, along with all of his other light-bulb patents, when it was discovered he had stolen the invention from the works of others.

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Lewis Howard Latimer received a patent on his invention of longer - lasting what?

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Is the phonograph Edison's best invention?

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