Edison was heavily influenced by Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason.

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.

" 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.

Some sources have claimed that despite their scientific contributions, neither was given the award because of their animosity toward each other ; that each sought to minimize the other's achievements and right to win the award ; that both refused ever to accept the award if the other received it first ; and that both rejected any possibility of sharing it ( although Edison did receive one of 38 possible bids in 1915, and Tesla did receive one bid out of 38 in 1937 ).

While Becquerel was primarily interested in conducting scientific research into fluorescence, Thomas Edison briefly pursued fluorescent lighting for its commercial potential.

Edison was not always the first to devise a scientific application, but he was frequently the one to bring an idea to a practical finish.

In the setting, Thomas Edison invented an " ether propeller " which could propel ships through the " luminiferous aether " ( the universal medium that permeates space, based on a now outdated scientific theory ), and traveled to Mars in 1870 accompanied by Scottish soldier of fortune Jack Armstrong, where they discovered that the planet was inhabited.

* Contrary to common opinion Edison made use of the scientific method but in a way that was limited to the task at hand and did not seek to develop generalized theories.

* Constructiveness + perceptive faculties + causality: scientific mind, initiative and creativity ( examples: Thomas Alva Edison, Albert Einstein )

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.

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

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 ".

The day after Edison died, the New York Times contained extensive coverage of Edison's life, with the only negative opinion coming from Tesla who was quoted as saying:

Thomas A. Edison had announced the invention of his " phonograph " saying " the object was to record telephone messages and transmit them again by telephone.

Edison's assistant Clarence Madison Dally ( 1865 – 1904 ) died as a result of exposure to radiation from fluoroscopes, and in 1903, Edison abandoned his work on fluoroscopes, saying " Don't talk to me about X-rays, I am afraid of them .".

Edison is quoted as saying, " When I want to discover something, I begin by reading up everything that has been done along that line in the past-that's what all these books in the library are for.

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.

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

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.

* Edison has three public libraries: the Main Library is on Plainfield Avenue in South Edison, near Edison station ; North Edison Branch is on Grove Avenue, and the Clara Barton Branch is in the Clara Barton downtown area, on Hoover Avenue.

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.