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Thomas Edison

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American inventor and businessman known for developing the phonograph, the practical incandescent light bulb and the motion picture camera, and for founding companies including General Electric.

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According to the New York Times, when health department men were trying to photograph the smokestacks of Edison's huge East Side Manhattan power plant, scouts were put on the company's roof who ordered the feeding of coal stopped whenever photographers appeared.
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