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The Incandescent Light Bulb Invented by Thomas Edison in 1878 Provided a cheap, inefficient means of indoor lighting Used a vacuum and tungsten wire to prevent the filament from burning when an electric current passed through it Edison also devised a system of power generation and distribution improved dynamo and parallel circuit of wires provided electricity conveniently to a large number of customers Edison acted as his own publicist in 1880 at Christmas Edison illuminated Menlo Park with 40 incandescent bulbs in 1882 he built a power plant that could light 85 buildings in Wall Street Led to a boom in the electrical industry The Theory of Scientific Management attempted to increase production by timing workers? tasks and suggest ways to speed up their performance

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Ch. 3 Focus Questions A unitary system of government is one in which the central government appoints duties to smaller subsidized governments such as countries or provinces. In these governments, the smaller parties will rely on the funds of the central government due to the fact that they cannot tax. An example of a unitary government would be the United Kingdom. A co federal government is one in which the local governments retain power over the whole. One example is the European Union in which each country has control individually. A Federal government has specific duties appointed equally for the national and state governments, an example of which would be the United States.