Edison continued to improve this design and by November 4, 1879, filed for U. S. patent 223, 898 ( granted on January 27, 1880 ) for an electric lamp using " a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires ".

In October, Edison filed a preliminary claim, known as a caveat, with the U. S. Patent Office outlining his plans for the device.

Both Thomas Alva Edison and Emile Berliner filed patent applications for the carbon microphone, in March and June 1877 respectively.

No such collaboration was undertaken, but in October 1888, Edison filed a preliminary claim, known as a caveat, with the U. S. Patent Office announcing his plans to create a device that would do " for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear ".

Upon his return to the United States, Edison filed another patent caveat, on November 2, which described a Kinetoscope based not just on a flexible filmstrip, but one in which the film was perforated to allow for its engagement by sprockets, making its mechanical conveyance much more smooth and reliable.

In September 2008, Detroit Edison filed an application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) for a Combined Construction and Operating License ( COL ) for a third reactor.

In April 2001, Consolidated Edison filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission stating that they had tripled the compensation of McGrath, to $ 9 million.

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

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

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.

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 received in 1942 the AIEEs Edison Medal " for distinguished contributions to the art of electric communication, notably the regenerative circuit, the superheterodyne, and frequency modulation ".

Unique among all the one minute long films made by the Edison company, which recorded parts of the acts of variety performers for their Kinetoscope viewing machines, was The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

The best known of these film-makers was Edwin S. Porter, who started making films for the Edison Company in 1901.

Blair's company supplied film to Edison for five years.

In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first film version of Frankenstein, which was thought lost for many years.

Since 1902, Edison had also been notifying distributors and exhibitors that if they did not use Edison machines and films exclusively, they would be subject to litigation for supporting filmmaking that infringed Edison's patents.

Advertisement from 1889 for the Edison Mimeograph

Thomas Edison received US patent 180, 857 for " Autographic Printing " on August 8, 1876.

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.

The only original cast retained for the U. S. version series were Matt Frewer ( Max Headroom / Edison Carter ) and Amanda Pays ( Theora Jones ); a third original cast member, W. Morgan Sheppard, joined the series as " Blank Reg " in later episodes.

Edison Carter ( Matt Frewer ) was a hard-hitting reporter for Network 23, who sometimes uncovered things that his superiors in the network would have preferred to keep private.

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 ).

Theora was Network 23's star controller (" stolen " from the World One Network by Murray ) and, working with the network's star reporter, Edison Carter, she often helped save the day for everyone.

* 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.

Smith ), a streetwise pedicab driver whom Edison Carter frequently employs when looking for information about the city's underworld.

* 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

In the 20th century the traditions of Russian opera were developed by many composers including Sergei Rachmaninoff in his works The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini, Igor Stravinsky in Le Rossignol, Mavra, Oedipus rex, and The Rake's Progress, Sergei Prokofiev in The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery, and War and Peace ; as well as Dmitri Shostakovich in The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Edison Denisov in L ' écume des jours, and Alfred Schnittke in Life with an Idiot and Historia von D. Johann Fausten.

In 1904, The U. S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi's financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie.

Jimmie's father, station agent J. U. MacKenzie of Mount Clemens, Michigan, was so grateful that he trained Edison as a telegraph operator.

To better protect the copyrights on his films, Edison deposited prints of them on long strips of photographic paper with the U. S. copyright office.

Although George Westinghouse had bought Gaulard and Gibbs ' patents in 1885, the Edison Electric Light Company held an option on the U. S. rights for the Z. B. D.

Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding List of Edison patents | 1, 093 U. S. patents in his name.

There are numerous origami tessellation artists including Chris Palmer ( U. S .), Eric Gjerde ( U. S .), Polly Verity ( Scotland ), Joel Cooper ( U. S .), Christine Edison ( U. S .), Ray Schamp ( U. S .), Roberto Gretter ( Italy ), Goran Konjevod ( U. S .), and Christiane Bettens ( Switzerland ) that are showing works that are both geometric and representational.

However, contributors included former U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas A. Edison, both friends of Fisher, as well as then-current President Woodrow Wilson, the first U. S. President to make frequent use of an automobile for relaxation.

In 2009, Edison was ranked as one of " America's 10 Best Places to Grow Up " by U. S. News and World Report.

The Edison Bridge on U. S. 9 and the Driscoll Bridge on the Garden State Parkway connect Woodbridge on the north with Sayreville on the south.

The Edison Bridge on U. S. Route 9 spans the Raritan River, connecting Woodbridge Township on the north with Sayreville on the south.

The Supreme Court of the United States held in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana, 453 U. S. 609 ( 1981 ), that in the absence of federal law to the contrary, states may set ecotaxes as high as they wish without violating the Commerce Clause or the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.

* The first banyan tree in the U. S. was planted by Thomas Alva Edison in Fort Myers, Florida.

First described in conceptual terms by U. S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1888, it was largely developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892.