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Article: Electricity and Electronics
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ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS
ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS.
In December 1879 Thomas Alva Edison and his associates invited the public to their work site in Menlo Park, New Jersey. People from New York and elsewhere gathered to see what they had never seen before
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buildings and grounds illuminated with about 100 electric incandescent lamps.
By the time of Edison's Menlo Park demonstration, much had already been discovered about electricity. The Italian scientist Alessandro Volta had invented the electric battery, and the English scientist Michael Faraday had created a generator using magnetism to produce electricity. Even the idea of electric lighting was not new.
Various scientists ...