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Princeton's WordNet

1. Edison, Thomas Edison, Thomas Alva Edisonnoun

   United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)

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1. Nikola Tesla:

   If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

2. Stephen Leacock:

   What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

3. Robert Madonna:

   When Thomas Edison installed the first light bulb, that must have been magical. Thomas Edison's how smart technology today should be in the home.

4. Newt Gingrich:

   If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.

5. Michael Edelman:

   We can tune quantum dots to make that old Thomas Edison glow we all know and love.

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