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||1882 – Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age. | ||1882 – Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age. | ||
George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. | File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. | ||
||1905 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox (d. 2003) | ||1905 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox (d. 2003) | ||
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1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
2017: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker sells for ten million dollars.