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

* 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.

Phonograph cabinet built with Edison Portland Cement Company | Edison cement, 1912.

In 1891, Thomas Edison built a Kinetoscope, or peep-hole viewer.

In 1885, Thomas Edison bought property in Fort Myers, Florida, and built what was later called Seminole Lodge as a winter retreat.

* January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey ( it was built by Thomas Edison ).

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.

The wind farm is being built by Caithness Energy using General Electric ( GE ) 2. 5 MW wind turbines, and it will supply electricity to Southern California Edison.

On January 19, 1883, the world's first electric lighting system employing overhead wires began service in Roselle, and was built by Thomas Edison to demonstrate that an entire community could be lit by electricity.

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.

The first electricity system supplying incandescent lights was built by the Edison Illuminating Company in lower Manhattan, eventually serving one square mile with six " jumbo dynamos " housed at Pearl Street Station.

Thomas Edison patented a nickel – or cobalt – cadmium battery in 1902, and adapted the battery design when he introduced the nickel – iron battery to the US two years after Jungner had built one.

For example, the British engineer Joseph Swan built an incandescent electric lamp in 1860, almost 20 years before Edison.

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

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.

It was built between 1969 and 1973 at a cost of $ 315 million and is owned jointly by Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison and operated by Consumers Energy.

The Edison building, built by Falconbridge Ltd. in 1969, here photographed in 1985

Falconbridge Ltd. built the Edison Building in 1969 to serve as its head office.

Together the two companies arranged for a radio station to be built in Chicago which would be operated jointly by Commonwealth Edison and Westinghouse.

Designed by Robert Edison Fulton, Jr., it was an aluminum-bodied car, built with independent suspension, aircraft-sized wheels, and a six-cylinder 165 hp engine.

A few session musicians have even built reputations of notoriety: English session singer Tony Burrows appeared so often as a frontman for various one-hit wonder studio groups ( such as Edison Lighthouse, The Flower Pot Men, The Pipkins, The Brotherhood of Man, White Plains, and The First Class ), in a short period of time during the early 1970s, that his attempts at a solo career under his own name were hampered, due in part to burnout.

In 1985, on the 100th anniversary of his father's birth, Harry Blackstone, Jr. donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D. C. the original floating light bulb — designed and built by Thomas Edison — and the original Casadega Cabinet, used in the " Dancing Handkerchief " illusion.

In 2006, Southern California Edison planned to secure 1, 500 megawatts or more of power generated from new projects to be built in the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm area.

However, he is not above selling out his employers if it means a big payoff, a fact which Edison Carter takes advantage of on several occasions while working on stories.

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 ).

But it would take several more years and the renewed efforts of Edison and the further improvements of Emile Berliner and many others, before the recording industry became a major factor in home entertainment.

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.

In 1878, Edison formed the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City with several financiers, including J. P. Morgan and the members of the Vanderbilt family.

Tesla stated: On November 6, 1915, The New York Times announced that both Edison and Tesla were to jointly receive the 1915 Nobel Prize, leading to one of several Nobel Prize controversies.

Dickson and his team at the Edison lab then worked on the development of the Kinetoscope for several years.

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.

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 ).

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.

In 1912 several things happened in Yorba Linda: it received its first post office ; the Yorba Linda Citrus Association was founded ; the Southern California Edison Company began providing electricity ; and the first church was constructed.

Also of interest, are several Regina music boxes, a large pump fire engine, used by the Collins Company, an Edison phonograph and Edison fans.

* Durham Woods, a complex of several apartment buildings and scene of the Edison, New Jersey natural gas explosion in 1994, in which a 36-inch natural gas pipeline burst and exploded, destroying buildings in the area.

Rachmaninoff, in particular, became one of the first composer-performers to record extensively ; he first made several recordings for Thomas Edison in 1919, then became an exclusive Victor artist from 1920 to 1942.

On January 18, 1937, President Roosevelt appointed Charles Edison as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, then as Secretary on January 2, 1940, Claude A. Swanson having died several months previously.

William Preece, a British scientist took back with him several of the Edison Effect bulbs, and presented a paper on them in 1885, where he referred to thermionic emission as the " Edison Effect.

The recording also received several prestigious awards, including the Goldene Europa from Germany, the Edison Award from the Netherlands and the Rockbjörnen from Sweden.

Con Edison sponsored several summer tennis camps at P. S.

However, he was involved in several lengthy patent disputes with Thomas Edison over his claims to the lightbulb.

He has earned more than 40 international awards and distinctions, including two Grammy Awards ( USA ), several Juno Awards ( Canada ), the Grand Prix du Président de la République ( France ), the Prix mondial du disque de Montreux ( Switzerland ), the Amsterdam Edison Award, the Japan Record Academy Award, and the German Music Critics ' Award.