Historical clue formulations

• New Jersey city named for its most famous former resident — 2024-01-09
• Holder of over 1,000 patents — 2023-06-06
• Noted holder of 1,093 U.S. patents — 2019-11-05
• Tesla competitor — 2019-09-04
• Westinghouse rival — 2019-06-13
• Call ending a rugby match / Prolific inventor — 2019-04-09
• Incandescent lamp inventor — 2019-01-14
• Motion picture pioneer — 2018-01-12
• Inventor dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" — 2017-11-06
• Early record label — 2017-10-15
• Tesla competitor — 2016-12-24
• Holder of 1,000+ patents — 2016-08-24
• Who said "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work" — 2016-07-02
• Westinghouse adversary — 2014-08-07
• "___, the Man," 1940 biopic starring Spencer Tracy — 2010-08-19
• "Speaking machine" developer — 2010-07-28
• The "Ed" of Con Ed — 2009-10-19
• The Wizard of Menlo Park — 2008-12-23
• Stock ticker's inventor — 2008-06-29
• Town near Metuchen, N.J. — 2008-04-17
• Subject of a 1940 biopic starring Spencer Tracy — 2008-01-10
• Founder of General Electric — 2007-07-15
• Kinetoscope inventor — 2007-05-13
• Fluoroscope inventor — 2006-05-14
• Famous lab director — 2005-06-23
• New Jersey city — 2003-08-15
• ___ effect (1883 physics discovery) — 2002-09-21
• The Wizard of Menlo Park — 2002-07-29
• Inventor of the stock ticker — 2001-10-29
• The Wizard of Menlo Park — 2001-05-22
• It's north of Highland Park, N.J. — 2001-03-23
• Prolific patentee — 2001-01-21
• An inventor of the microphone — 2000-12-09
• Holder of 1,093 patents — 2000-07-21
• One full of ideas — 2000-05-25
• Stock ticker inventor — 1999-05-16
• Inventor who saw the light — 1999-05-11
• Inventor of the stock ticker — 1998-12-13
• Town in central New Jersey — 1998-10-27
• One with a light workload? — 1998-05-24
• Inventor of Menlo Park — 1998-05-04
• Electronics groundbreaker — 1997-12-19
• Eponymic New Jersey city — 1997-12-06
• Phonograph's inventor — 1996-10-07
• _____ effect (electrical phenomenon) — 1996-08-21
• The Wizard of Menlo Park — 1995-09-04
• Early name in talking machines — 1994-04-17