* Consolidated Edison, also Con Edison

He was also consultant to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Swan Company, Ferranti, Edison Telephone, and later the Edison Electric Light Company.

Spacey also appeared in Edison, co-starring Morgan Freeman and Justin Timberlake ; Edison received a direct-to-video release on July 18, 2006.

The Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust ), founded in December 1908, was a trust of all the major American film companies ( Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, American Star, American Pathé ), the leading film distributor ( George Kleine ) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak.

Since 1902, Edison had also been notifying distributors and exhibitors that if they did not use Edison machines and films exclusively, they would be subject to litigation for supporting filmmaking that infringed Edison's patents.

She was also the pseudo-love-interest of Edison Carter, but that subplot was not explored fully on the show before it was cancelled.

Hermann also played back vowel recordings made with the Edison phonograph at different speeds in order to test Willis ' and Wheatstone's theories of vowel production.

Edison's early patents show that he also considered the idea that sound could be recorded as a spiral onto a disc, but Edison concentrated his efforts on cylinders, since the groove on the outside of a rotating cylinder provides a constant velocity to the stylus in the groove, which Edison considered more " scientifically correct ".

( French composer Charles Gounod was also a guest at this reception, and he and Edison discussed the prospect of recording a performance of Gounod's opera Faust, but a collaboration never materialized.

( This was not the first attempt at a commercial long play record format, as Edison Records had marketed a microgroove vertically recorded disc with 20 minutes playing time per side the previous decade ; the Edison long-playing records were also a commercial failure.

Edison was also granted a patent for the motion picture camera or " Kinetograph ".

" She also said that during one of his periodic " great scientific adventures ", Edison would be up at 7: 00, have breakfast at 8: 00, and be rarely home for lunch or dinner, implying that he continued to have all three.

The President of the Third French Republic, Jules Grévy, on the recommendation of his Minister of Foreign Affairs Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire and with the presentations of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Louis Cochery, designated Edison with the distinction of an ' Officer of the Legion of Honour ' ( Légion d ' honneur ) by decree on November 10, 1881 ; He also named a Chevalier in 1879, and a Commander in 1889.

If the extra electrode ( also called a " plate " or " anode ") is made more positive than the hot filament, a direct current flows through the vacuum to the anode ( a demonstration of the Edison effect ).

Business icons Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone also lent their cachet to the campaign.

* Montez is also the inspiration for Lola Montero in Edison Marshall's novel Infinite Woman.

During this time he also worked on other Edison Company productions including Sam Loyd's The Puzzling Billboard and Nippy's Nightmare ( both 1917 ), which were the first stop-motion films to combine live actors with stop motion models.

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

The Edison company took up a projector developed by Armat and Jenkins, the " Phantoscope ", which was renamed the Vitascope, and it joined various projecting machines made by other people to show the 480 mm.

width films being made by the Edison company and others in France and the UK.

Unique among all the one minute long films made by the Edison company, which recorded parts of the acts of variety performers for their Kinetoscope viewing machines, was The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

He took up filmmaking in 1896, and after making imitations of other films from Edison, Lumière, and Robert Paul, he made Escamotage d ' un dame chez Robert-Houdin ( The Vanishing Lady ).

This film shows a woman being made to vanish by using the same stop motion technique as the earlier Edison film.

Information about the recording made by Thomas Edison in 1889 of Brahms playing part of his Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor.

* In " Security Systems ", he is reluctantly forced into a temporary exile with the fugitive Edison Carter when his off-hand comment that " SS even does security for Network 23 " makes them realize, too late, the mistake they have made in trying to hack A7 from Bryce's lab.

In American English, " phonograph ", properly specific to machines made by Edison, was sometimes used in a generic sense as early as the 1890s to include cylinder-playing machines made by others, but it was then considered strictly incorrect to apply it to the upstart Gramophone, a very different machine which played discs.

The " Edison Trust ", as it was nicknamed, was made up of Edison, Biograph, Essanay Studios, Kalem Company, George Kleine Productions, Lubin Studios, Georges Méliès, Pathé, Selig Studios, and Vitagraph Studios, and dominated distribution through the General Film Company.

Building on the contributions of other developers over the previous three quarters of a century, Edison made improvements to the idea of incandescent light, and entered the public consciousness as " the inventor " of the lightbulb, and a prime mover in developing the necessary infrastructure for electric power.

Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park.

When Edison was a very old man and close to death, he said, in looking back, that the biggest mistake he had made was in not respecting Tesla or his work.

Unlike iron ore mining with the Edison Ore-Milling Company, the heavy investment Edison made over ten years was repaid handsomely, and the storage battery eventually became Edison's most profitable product.

Six more silent versions followed with one made by Thomas Edison in 1910.

The following recording was made in Moscow in January 1890, by Julius Block on behalf of Thomas Edison.

He would then make a Farmer Al Falfa short for Edison Pictures, called " Farmer Al Falfa's Wayward Pup " ( 1917 ), and some later cartoons were made for Paramount Pictures.

In 1943 he made his first recordings under his own name, alongside Nat Cole and Harry Edison.

In 2011, Edison was inducted into the Entrepreneur Walk of Fame, and named a Great Floridian by the Florida Governor and Cabinet.

While Edison oversaw cursory sound-cinema experiments after the success of The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) and other Edison Manufacturing Company productions, it was not until 1908 that he returned in earnest to the combined audiovisual concept that had first led him to enter the motion picture field.

In addition to trees that will be moved and replanted on the base, Southern California Edison has committed to contributing 50, 000 trees to the Great Park.

Thomas Edison installed one of the first hydroelectric power plants in the world using the Great Falls as an energy source.

* Frow, George L. & Sefl, Albert F. " The Edison Cylinder Phonographs 1877-1929 ", Kent, Great Britain: Flo-Print, 1978.

In 1879, he went to London to supervise technical operations of the Edison Telephone Company of Great Britain, but he was taken ill there and returned to Menlo Park.

The state of New Jersey recorded its second-largest snowstorm at Edison, where 32 inches ( 81 cm ) fell ( the greatest single storm record being 34 inches ( 86 cm ) at Cape May in the Great Blizzard of 1899 ).