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Who invited the first electric light bulb and the phonograph?
Thomas Edison invented these things as well as many others in his workshop.
Who invented persistence of vision?
300s B.C. The Greek Aristotle was the first to observe and describe how he saw a light after-effect: a persistent image (that slowly faded away) after he gazed into the sun.
What inventions were invented in the 1920's-1940's?
The traffic light
History of Thomas Edison the light bulb?
Thomas Edison invented his version of the light bulb in 1879. He added a special filament and made it able to be utilized by the public.
Who invented the cardigan?
It is named after Lord Cardigan, infamous in the history of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in Crimea 1854.
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