Edison cares about his co-workers, especially Theora Jones and Bryce Lynch, and he has a deep respect for his producer Murray ( although he rarely shows it ).

In the pilot episode of the series, Bryce is enlisted by evil network CEO Ned Grossberg ( Charles Rocket, another non-original cast member ) to investigate the mental patterns of unconscious reporter Edison Carter, to determine whether or not Carter has discovered the secrets of the " Blipverts " scandal.

Swan acknowledged that Edison had anticipated him, saying " Edison is entitled to more than I ... he has seen further into this subject, vastly than I, and foreseen and provided for details that I did not comprehend until I saw his system ".

Historian Paul Israel has characterized Edison as a " freethinker ".

Edison defended Paine's " scientific deism ", saying, " He has been called an atheist, but atheist he was not.

The depot has been named the Thomas Edison Depot Museum.

The town has many Edison historical landmarks, including the graves of Edison's parents, and a monument along the St. Clair River.

Thomas Edison has appeared in popular culture as a character in novels, films, comics and video games.

This execution method was created by employees of Thomas Edison, and has been used only in the United States and, for a period of several decades, in the Philippines ( its first use there in 1924 under American occupation, last in 1976 ).

Through Edison and Woodbridge has a mix of boulevard and jersey freeway segments and continues to do so after the US 9 juncture in the Avenel section of Woodbridge.

The Turnpike has five interchanges in Middlesex: Exit 12 in Carteret, Exit 11 in Woodbridge, Exit 10 in Edison, Exit 9 in East Brunswick and Exit 8A in Monroe.

Stickney has two public elementary schools, Home School and Edison School, part of Lyons Elementary School District 103, both serving grades K-5.

Edison has been one of the fastest growing towns in New Jersey.

Edison has a large Jewish community next to Highland Park, with multiple synagogues located in Edison.

Edison also has a growing Indian community and a number of temples serving the religious needs of the community.

Majesco Entertainment, a video game company, has its corporate headquarters in Edison.

Based on the results of the 2010 Census, the New Jersey Redistricting Commission has shifted all of Edison into the 6th Congressional District, a change that will take effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Additionally, the private for-profit technical school Lincoln Tech ( formerly the Cittone Institute ) has a campus on Oak Tree Road in Edison.

The common coupling of Swan's name with that of Edison in connection with the incandescent electric lamp has often led to the notion that Swan collaborated with Edison in this invention.

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 was said to have been influenced by a popular fad diet in his last few years ; " the only liquid he consumed was a pint of milk every three hours ".

" 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 Lake Station Community Schools district consists of three elementary schools, Virgil I. Bailey, Carl J. Polk, Alexander and Hamilton, a preschool and 6th grade school combined named Central, and one combined junior and senior high school Thomas A. Edison Junior-Senior High School.

Soon thereafter, the city's schools ranked last among the state's 501 districts, leading Pennsylvania education officials in 2001 to hire the for-profit Edison Schools to run the local school district for three years.

* Edison introduces the Home Kinetoscope, a home film-projector which uses a 22 mm print consisting of three rows of frames.

Edison patented a synchronization system connecting a projector and a phonograph, located behind the screen, via an assembly of three rigid shafts — a vertical one descending from each device, joined by a third running horizontally the entire length of the theater, beneath the floor.

Coinciding with this, in early 1882, Edison opened the world ’ s first steam-powered electricity generating station at Holborn Viaduct in London, where he had entered into an agreement with the City Corporation for a period of three months to provide street lighting.

Then, in a deal with General Electric, which Edison had been forced to sell, Westinghouse's company went on to construct the Adams Power Plant at the Niagara Falls, with three 5, 000 horsepower ( 3. 7 MW ) Tesla generators supplying electricity to an aluminium smelter at Niagara and the town of Buffalo 22 miles ( 35 km ) away.

Ft. Myers, Florida, February 11, 1929. Firestone, Ford, and Thomas Edison were generally considered the three leaders in American industry at the time, and often worked and vacationed together.

Built in 1911 and one of the architectural landmarks of the city, the Kelsey Building housed three schools before serving as the headquarters for Thomas Edison State College.

Having previously played with artists such as Edison Lighthouse, White Plains and Artful Dodger as a session drummer, Honey joined Ian Mitchell's post-Bay City Rollers band The Ian Mitchell Band in May 1979, who despite not finding success in the UK or US, released three studio albums and toured extensively across Europe and Asia.

In 1893 the Edison Electric Light Co. brought suit against three manufacturers of incandescent lamps for infringing Edison ´ s patent.

AEI Lamp and Lighting brought to the BLI group three significant lighting interests: The British Thompson-Houston Co Ltd ( BTH ) which owned major factories, especially at Leicester in the East Midlands of England ( producing discharge lamps ) and in Hereford, near the Welsh border ( making luminaires ), and sold lamps under the ‘ Mazda ’ brand ; the Metropolitan-Vickers Electric Co Ltd ( MV ) which drew supplies from the BTH factories, selling them under the ' Metrovick ' brand ; and the Edison Swan Electric Co. Ltd ( Ediswan ), which had recently transferred its factory and ‘ Royal Ediswan ’ brand over to BTH.

Her first television guest appearances were in My Secret Identity and E. N. G .. She then appeared in Maniac Mansion from 1990 – 1993, playing Tina Edison, the eldest of three children of Dr. Fred Edison ( Joe Flaherty ).

" Variations on a Lady " went platinum in the Netherlands and received three awards including an Edison.

The Western Edison Light Co. was founded in Chicago in 1882, three years after Edison developed a practical light bulb.

It has hosted three of his fights, against Edison Miranda, Mikkel Kessler and Allan Green.

In 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair, Thomas Edison introduced to the public two pioneering inventions based on this innovation ; the Kinetograph – the first practical moving picture camera – and the Kinetoscope.

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

When the limitations of DC were discussed by the public, Edison launched a propaganda campaign to convince people that AC was far too dangerous to use.

In April 1896, Thomas Armat's Vitascope, manufactured by the Edison factory and marketed in Edison's name, was used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City.

* December 31 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

He wrote several articles on writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Israel Zangwill, John Burroughs, and interviewed public figures such as Andrew Carnegie, Marshall Field, Thomas Edison, and Theodore Thomas.

In the basement of the new Ellicott Square Building, Main Street, Buffalo, New York, Mitchell Mark ( properly spelled Mitchel Mark ) and his brother Moe Mark added what they called Edison's Vitascope Theater ( entered through Edisonia Hall ), which they opened to the general public on October 19, 1896 in collaboration with Rudolf Wagner, who had moved to Buffalo after spending several years working at the Edison laboratories.

Water service is primarily provided by Palmdale Water District ( separate public agency ) and Los Angeles County Waterworks ( part of the County Public Works ); sewer service is provided by the County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County ( separate public agency ); electrical service is provided by Southern California Edison ; natural gas service is provided by Southern California Gas ; cable television service is provided by Time Warner Cable ; telephone service is provided by AT & T and Verizon ; refuse pickup and disposal service is provided by Waste Management, Inc of the Antelope Valley under a franchise agreement with the city.

The two public high schools separate the South and North ends of Edison.

Middlesex County College ( MCC ) is a public, two-year community college located in Edison at the intersection of Woodbridge Avenue and Mill Road.

Thomas Edison Charter School, which has campuses in North Logan and Nibley, is a public school for grades K-8 offering an academic stimulated curriculum.

* May 20, 1891-Thomas Edison holds the first public presentation of his Kinetoscope for the National Federation of Women's Clubs.

* May 9, 1893-In America, Thomas Edison holds the first public exhibition of films shot using his Kinetograph at the Brooklyn Institute.

* April 1896-Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City

The first public power station was the Edison Electric Light Station, built in London at 57, Holborn Viaduct, which started operation in January 1882.

His shows and public appearances display an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of recorded music in general, from the earliest Edison cylinder recordings onward.

It was promoted by inventor Thomas Edison, who built the first electric chair, and conducted many public tests on animals, using alternating current ( AC ) electricity.

Thomas Edison State College is a public institution of higher education located in Trenton, New Jersey.