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Electric Lighting Inquiry Unit
A key aspect of Edison's success comes from his foresight to create a research laboratory. He is the first inventor to develop such a lab for inventive work. Funding from the Edison Electric Light Com…
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Electric Lighting Inquiry Unit
Electric light and power has forever changed the world in which we live. At the age of twenty-nine, Thomas Alva Edison builds his Menlo Park laboratory where he begins to focus on the incandescent lam…
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Electric Lighting Inquiry Unit
David, a 10th grader, takes you on a creative and technical journey by sharing how to make a light bulb with cardboard, pencil lead, and batteries. This hands-on activity is part of the IEEE REACH (re…
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Electric Lighting Inquiry Unit
Seldom told is the story of Lewis Howard Latimer, yet his name should be synonymous with the history of electric light. The self-taught son of fugitive slaves, Latimer's career spans from exemplary se…
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