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electrical engineer, inventorBorn: 7/9/1856Birthplace: Smiljan Lika, Croatia A brilliant but eccentric inventor, Tesla is responsible for many of the innovations in modern electrical machinery and…
CLARK, Henry Alden, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Harborcreek Township, Erie County, Pa., January 7, 1850; attended the common schools and the Erie Academy in 1864, the State…
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(Encyclopedia) Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson, 1828–1914, English chemist and physicist. He made an incandescent lamp using a carbon filament (1860), 20 years before Edison's lamp. Noted for important…
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