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Howard Chandler Christy created this artwork depicting Ohioan Thomas Edison as a boy, adult, and older man. The painting celebrates Edison's invention of the light bulb through both the title of the piece and the figure in the upper left holding a lightbulb.

Thomas A. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio in 1847.

00:00:13	Another example of the work of Ohio artist
00:00:15	Howard Chandler Christy is this painting
00:00:18	featuring Thomas Edison who was born
00:00:20	in Milan, Ohio in 1847.
00:00:24	Christy's work features three different stages of Edison's life:
00:00:29	young boy, adult and mature man.
00:00:32	Its title, "Dawn of a New Light" specifically references
00:00:36	what is Edison's most important and influential invention,
00:00:40	the electric light bulb.
00:00:43	One of the prominent elements of the painting is a female figure
00:00:46	holding aloft one of Edison's electric light bulbs, symbolizing
00:00:50	how the inventor helped bring light to the whold world.