biography
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Farmer, Moses (Gerrish)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1820–93)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, USA. He left Dartmouth College because of poor health, and worked as a schoolteacher in Maine and New Hampshire. Curious and clever, a compulsive tinkerer, he built a model electric train, designed a fire-alarm system adopted by the city of Boston (1851), and devised a multiplex telegraph system (1855). In 1868, a decade before Edison introduced his electric light bulb, Farmer outfitted a house in Cambridge, MA with a dynamo and 40 incandescent lamps of his own invention. |
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