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.

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.

He announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 ( early reports appear in Scientific American and several newspapers in the beginning of November, and an even earlier announcement of Edison working on a ' talking-machine ' can be found in the Chicago Daily Tribune on May 9 ), and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29 ( it was patented on February 19, 1878 as US Patent 200, 521 ).

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 ".

Many early machines were of the Edison Class M or Class E type.

* Listen to early recordings on the Edison Phonograph

Although attempts to create sync-sound motion pictures go back to the Edison lab in 1896, the technology became well-developed only in the early 1920s.

Edison developed hearing problems at an early age.

Utilities such as Commonwealth Edison in Chicago had rotary converters or motor-generator sets, which could change DC to AC and AC to various frequencies in the early to mid-20th century.

Because Westinghouse was angered by the decision, he funded Eighth Amendment-based appeals for inmates set to die in the electric chair, ultimately resulting in Edison providing the generators which powered early electrocutions and testifying successfully on behalf of the state that electrocution was a painless method of execution.

In early 2010, Edison was proposed by the Ohio Historical Society as a finalist in a statewide vote for inclusion in Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol.

Further advancements in telegraph technology occurred in the early 1870s, when Thomas Edison devised a full duplex two-way telegraph and then doubled its capacity with the invention of quadruplex telegraphy in 1874.

French-born Scot inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison ( post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince ).

During this time, Thomas Edison was issued a British patent for a system using compressed air as an amplifying mechanism for his early cylinder phonographs, but he ultimately settled for the familiar metal horn driven by a membrane attached to the stylus.

The vaudeville trapeze artist, Charmion, performed a " disrobing " act onstage as early as 1896, which was captured in the 1901 Edison film, Trapeze Disrobing Act.

" The early Edison film, The Widow Jones – the May Irwin-John Rice Kiss ( 1886 ) created a sensation when it was shown in Tokyo, and people crowded to view the enormity.

The field of infrared astronomy continued to develop slowly in the early 20th century, as Seth Barnes Nicholson and Edison Pettit developed thermopile detectors capable of accurate infrared photometry and sensitive to a few hundreds of stars.

Dickson as a test of the early version of the Thomas Edison | Edison Kinetoscope # Kinetophone | Kinetophone, combining the Kinetoscope and phonograph.

The inventor of the motion picture camera, Thomas Edison himself, was so annoyed by the stiffness of the early " talkies " that he refused to see them and returned to his favorite " silents " with Bow and Mary Pickford.

This is due largely to the fact that Villa Park's early unwillingness to annex land beyond Santiago Creek, to annex the lands east of a Southern California Edison Power Line Easement that sat between the City of Villa Park and Anaheim Hills, eventually being annexed by the City of Orange.

The plant, which was built in the early 1990s is controlled by Edison International and generates electricity using a fluidized bed combustion boiler process burning waste coal.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, session bands such as Edison Lighthouse or Alive N Kickin ' producing just a single 45 record were common.

set production ( excluding those destined for the export market ) also ran ahead in the early months, but was curtailed after the usual vacation shutdowns in the face of growing evidence that some of the early production plans had been overly optimistic.

I had come to Chicago from New York early in September with a dramatic production called Ask Tony.

With the increasing production of talking pictures in the early 1930s, film narrators like Heigo began to lose work, and Akira moved back in with his parents.

Wool production provided an early basis for the South Australian economy.

Bruce gained his early reputation from the production of large-scale commercial anchors for ships and fixed installations such as oil rigs.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

Abersychan was a thriving industrial centre in the 19th century and early 20th century, particularly for iron production.

In fact, the project was small, underfunded by United Artists, and well under the cultural radar during the early months of production, as Stephen King's source novel had yet to climb the bestseller list.

* BBS Productions, highly influential film production company of early 1970s New Hollywood

Low-cost production quality was typical for early black metal artists with low budgets, where recordings would often be done in their homes or basements.

Fishing, shipbuilding, and cotton production boosted the economy during the early days of settlement.

During the early phases of the Big Bang, nucleosynthesis of hydrogen nuclei resulted in the production of hydrogen-1 ( protonium, < sup > 1 </ sup > H ) and helium-4 (< sup > 4 </ sup > He ), as well as a smaller amount of deuterium (< sup > 2 </ sup > H ) and very minuscule amounts ( on the order of 10 < sup >− 10 </ sup >) of lithium and beryllium.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

* In the early 1980s, Toyota researched production of an adiabatic engine using ceramic components in the hot gas area.

This controller chip, however, was the seat of some early problems with 1581 drives when the first production runs were recalled due to a high failure rate ; the problem was quickly corrected.

The show's production team was tested when many core cast members left the programme in the early 1970s.

The staff of Cowboy Bebop established the particular atmospheres early in the production.

The film was to be made by Webster's new production company Shoebox Films in collaboration with Focus Features and to be shot in early 2013.

Although production was usually about 57, 000 – 59, 000 tons annually in the 1980s, the acreage harvested declined from in the early 1980s to in 1999, indicating a greater yield per acre.

Such artists as Moby began using the Casio CZ-101 at an early age of production.

Starting in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, several types of video production equipment were introduced, such as time base correctors ( TBC ) and digital video effects ( DVE ) units ( one of the former being the Thomson-CSF 9100 Digital Video Processor, an internally all-digital full-frame TBC introduced in 1980, and two of the latter being the Ampex ADO, and the Nippon Electric Corporation ( NEC ) DVE ).