| Term | Definition |
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| How did Edison learn telegraphy? | He saved a stationmaster's son from being crushed by a train and so the stationmaster taught him telegraphy as a reward. |
| How did Edison receive a job with Laws Gold Indicator Company? | The office's central transmitting machine had broken down and Edison found the problem and fixed it with ease. |
| What was Edison's first patent? | An electric vote recorder machine. |
| What is a phonograph? | The phonograph is a machine that is able to record and play back sounds. |
| Who actually invented the light bulb? | Joseph Wilson Swan |
| What work of Edison's led to the Edison Electric Light Company? | When Edison installed an entire light system on a ship. |
| What was the "Edison Effect"? | The "Edison Effect" was the only scientific discovery Thomas Edison ever made, which led other workers to discover the vacuum tube. |
| What award did Edison win in 1908? | The John Fritz Medal of the American Engineering Societies. |
| What did Edison imagine the phonograph to being used for? | To record messages, which could then be sent by telegraphs, or transcribed as letters. |
| What two honors were Edison elected for after his death? | The National Academy of Sciences and the Hall of Fame for Great Americans |
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