Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Edison” in entry telephone-the of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

...nd Sciences of Boston......May 10, 1876 Bell's telephone exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, Pa.......June, 1876 Iron diaphragm first used by Bell......June 30, 1876 Edison 's carbon, loud-speaking telephone invented......January, 1877 Professor Bell exhibits at the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., his telephone, using a powerful horseshoe magnet, by which a short spee...
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Thomas A. Edison 4 4 0 0 0 user votes
Thomas Alva Edison 30 30 0 0 0 user votes
Edison 13 0 1 0 0 user votes
T. A. Edison 8 4 0 0 0 user votes
J. W. Edison 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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