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Farmer, Moses Gerrish

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Farmer, Moses Gerrish (1820–1893)

US inventor. He built a model electric train, designed a fire alarm system, and devised a multiplex telegraph system. In 1868, a decade before Thomas Edison's electric light bulb, he equipped a house with a dynamo and 40 incandescent lamps of his own invention.

He was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire. In 1851, his fire alarm system was adopted by the city of Boston.



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