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Question for: Sep 5, 2024

Thomas Edison is credited with inventing some things he actually stole from other people. Among them is the electric lightbulb. What inventor is usually unfairly forgotten even though he patented his design 10 years before Edison and successfully sued Edison for patent infringement? This man, who has the last name of a bird, was a chemist and physicist who also patented bromide paper, which is still used in black and white photography.

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