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2. Edison (film) - Wikipedia

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   Budget. $25 million [1][2] Box office. $4,143,414 [3] Edison (also known as Edison Force in the United States) is a 2005 American thriller film written and directed by David J. Burke, and starring Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake in his feature film debut, and Kevin Spacey.

3. Motion Picture Patents Company - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Edison with the licensees of the Motion Picture Patents Company (December 19, 1908). The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and effectively terminated in 1915 after it lost a federal antitrust suit, was a trust of all the major US film companies and local foreign-branches (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope ...

4. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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   Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).

5. Electrocuting an Elephant - Wikipedia

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   Electrocuting an Elephant (also known as Electrocution of an Elephant) is a 1903 American black-and-white silent actuality short depicting the killing of the elephant Topsy by electrocution at a Coney Island amusement park. It was produced by the Edison film company (part of the Edison Manufacturing Company) and is believed to have been shot by ...

6. Maryland Practice Driving Test Now Available for ... - AOL

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   The MD Practice Driving Test debuted last year on the iOS (Apple) platform, in the iTunes Store as a free and convenient tool to prepare future drivers for the knowledge test required to obtain a ...

7. War of the currents - Wikipedia

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   The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...