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 ".

Victor and most other disc record companies used side to side or lateral motion of the stylus in the record groove, whereas in the Edison system the movement was up and down or vertical ( also known as " hill-and-dale " motion ), as in a cylinder record.

In 1926, an attempt at reviving interest in the Edison Disc was with a 450-TPI long-playing disc, still spinning at 80 rpm, with times of 24 minutes per 10-inch disc and 40 for a 12-inch disc, but problems occurred ( notably with broken groove walls and overall low volume, often only 40 % of that of the regular discs ), and the disc failed.

When Edison finally introduced his " diamond disc " ( using a diamond instead of a steel needle ), it was cut " hill-and-dale ," meaning that the groove modulated on the vertical axis as it had on all cylinders — unlike other manufacturers ' disks which were cut laterally, meaning that the groove modulated on the horizontal axis.

In the following years a bitter rivalry between Tesla and Edison, known as the " War of Currents ", took place over the preferred method of distribution.

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.

In 1880 Edison obtained a further patent, US 224, 665: " Method of Preparing Autographic Stencils for Printing ", which covered the making of stencils using a file plate, a grooved metal plate on which the stencil was placed which perforated the stencil when written on with a blunt metal stylus.

Among the non-original cast, Jeffrey Tambor co-starred as " Murray ", Edison Carter's neurotic producer.

According to a personal statistics file displayed on a computer screen in the series, Edison is 6 ' 2 ", weighing 180 pounds.

* In " Body Banks ", he is ordered by Network 23 board member Julia Formby to accompany her to the Plantagenet residence, so he can load the dying family matriarch's brain patterns into a computer as he had done with Edison Carter's.

* 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 " The Blanks ", he visits Edison Carter's apartment as an " off-system " base to find the identity of the cyber-attackers threatening to shut down all computers in the city.

* In " Lessons ", he takes Theora's place in Control to guide Edison as well as disable the Censor computer — gaining him the respect of other controllers who watch him work.

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.

Although the patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament including " cotton and linen thread, wood splints, papers coiled in various ways ", it was not until several months after the patent was granted that Edison and his team discovered a carbonized bamboo filament that could last over 1, 200 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.

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

Life magazine ( USA ), in a special double issue in 1997, placed Edison first in the list of the " 100 Most Important People in the Last 1000 Years ", noting that the light bulb he promoted " lit up the world ".

In the United States, Thomas Edison, in the mid-1880s, patented an electromagnetic induction system he called " grasshopper telegraphy ", which allowed telegraphic signals to jump the short distance between a running train and telegraph wires running parallel to the tracks.

The stadium's walls were built of " an extremely hard and durable concrete that was developed by Thomas Edison ", with total of of concrete used in the original structure.

* Thomas Edison US patent 131, 334, " Coiled resistance wire rheostat ", issued 1872-9-17

* Thomas Edison demolishes " America's First Movie Studio ", the Black Maria.

* Thomas Edison closes " America's First Movie Studio ", the Black Maria.

In 1948, he established a charitable foundation, originally called " The Brook Foundation ", now the Charles Edison Fund.

By 1914, Edison's phonograph business included a dictating machine ( the Ediphone ) and the " Telescribe ", a machine combining the phonograph and the telephone, which recorded both sides of telephone conversations. Edison A Biography, Mathew Josephson Chapter 9http :// memory. loc. gov / ammem / edhtml / edcyldr. html

They included " Some of These Days ", which first came out in 1911 on Edison Records and then again in 1926.

* " Gramps-How an orphan from Maine became the Edison of the modern age ", by Rod Spencer

Edison could hardly have guessed, however, that Sophocles would one day appear in stereo.

An early Edison production was The Execution Of Mary, Queen Of Scots.

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.

* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

Another prominent member was Thomas A. Edison.

* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

* 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

Best Dance Product by The Edison Awards in the Netherlands.

( The Edison Awards is an award by the Dutch Music Industry.

A more reliable and controllable method of producing cathode rays was investigated by Hittorf and Goldstein, and rediscovered by Thomas Edison in 1880.

In 1907, Griffith, still writing as a playwright, went to New York and attempted to sell a script to Edison Studios producer Edwin Porter.

In 1995 the government was defeated in elections by the United Workers Party of Edison James.

Thomas Edison independently rediscovered the principle on February 13, 1880.

At the time, Edison was investigating why the filaments of his carbon-filament light bulbs nearly always burned out at the positive-connected end.

Edison devised a circuit where his modified light bulb effectively replaced the resistor in a DC voltmeter.

Edison was awarded a patent for this invention in 1884.

Since there was no apparent practical use for such a device at the time, the patent application was most likely simply a precaution in case someone else did find a use for the so-called Edison effect.

and former Edison employee ) realized that the Edison effect could be used as a precision radio detector.

Thomas Edison built the world's first large-scale electrical supply network.

In 1882, Edison switched on the world's first large-scale electrical supply network that provided 110 volts direct current to fifty-nine customers in lower Manhattan.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Institute of Radio Engineers now IEEE Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal.