GK
INVENTIONS
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Question
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He was an amateur magician
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His inventions seemed almost magical to people back then
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He claimed his inventions were inspired by mysterious forces
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He invented things without having to work hard on them
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1878, Edison built his famous laboratory in Menlo Park, where he invented the phonograph and electric light. Edison soon became known as the “Wizard of Menlo Park” because of the miraculous nature of his inventions which so radically changed how people lived.
Detailed explanation-2: -The “dream” refers to Edison’s idea of creating a simple and inexpensive source of light. Edison had declared in 1882 at the opening of the Pearl Street Station that “I have accomplished all I promised, ‘’ with his carbon lamp and central power plant to energize it.
Detailed explanation-3: -At Menlo Park, Edison continued his work on the telegraph, and in 1877 he stumbled on one of his great inventions–the phonograph–while working on a way to record telephone communication. Public demonstrations of the phonograph made the Yankee inventor world famous, and he was dubbed the “Wizard of Menlo Park.”