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Edison invented the first corporate R&D lab that spun inventions out into companies:

Light bulb and wiring - GE

phonograph - National Phonograph Company



Don't forget the audio recording industry, electric car batteries, mining advancements, the carbon telephone microphone, innumerable major advances in telegraphy, the electric power utility, etc.




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