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Thomas Edison's generator for electric light at his home at Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, 1879. Artist: Unknown

Thomas Edison's generator for electric light at his home at Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, 1879. Artist: Unknown

1-157-788 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Thomas Edison's generator for electric light at his home at Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, 1879. Behind the doors is the 80 hp engine. The two vignettes (top) are Edison's improved form of JW Trowbridge's electric dynamometer, and Lord Kelvin's mirror galvanometer. From Scientific American. (New York, 1879).

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  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
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  1. Thomas Edison: American: Inventor, businessman
  2. Lord Kelvin: British: Physicist, mathematician
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  1. Engraving
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World North and Central America United States New Jersey

  1. 40 00 00 N , 075 00 00 W
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Science & Nature Technology & Innovation

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 2686x3892
File Size : 30,627kb

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  1. 002542
  1. 002542
  1. 0460001340
  1. 1-157-788
  1. 1157788
  1. 1340
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