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 patented a system for electricity distribution in 1880, which was essential to capitalize on the invention of the electric lamp.

Edison patented the sound recording and reproducing phonograph in 1878.

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.

* February 19 – The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.

In 1890, Louis Glass and William S. Arnold invented the nickel-in-the-slot phonograph, the first of which was an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph retrofitted with a device patented under the name of Coin Actuated Attachment for Phonograph.

What is known about Woodward's discovery is that it was patented in Canada and the United States prior to a patent being granted to Edison and it is known that the patent for the Canadian discovery was purchased by Edison when he was making his original investigations and before he obtained his patent.

The two men had patented it but did not have enough money to develop their invention, so they sold their US patent 181, 613 to Thomas Edison for US $ 5, 000 ($ US 100, 000 in 2006 dollars ).

In America, Edison had been working on copies of the original light bulb patented by Swan, trying to make them more efficient.

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.

Edison patented a synchronization system connecting a projector and a phonograph, located behind the screen, via an assembly of three rigid shafts — a vertical one descending from each device, joined by a third running horizontally the entire length of the theater, beneath the floor.

He claimed an employee of his ( Maxim's ) had falsely patented the invention under his own name, and that Edison proved the employee's claim to be false, knowing that patent law would mean the invention would become public property, allowing Edison to manufacture the lightbulb without crediting Maxim as the true inventor.

* February 19-The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.

A fuse was patented by Thomas Edison in 1890 as part of his successful electric distribution system.

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Football authority and College Football Hall of Fame coach David M. Nelson wrote that " E. B. Cochems is to forward passing what the Wright brothers are to aviation and Thomas Edison is to the electric light.

Edison's organization of the Motion Picture Patents Trust agreed in 1909 to what would become the standard: 35 mm gauge, with Edison perforations and a 1. 33 aspect ratio.

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

In 1888, American inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison conceived of a device that would do " for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear ".

After it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it ; one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison.

It was Edison's format, however, that became first the dominant standard and then the " official " standard of the newly formed Motion Picture Patents Company, a trust established by Edison, which agreed in 1909 to what would become the standard: 35 mm gauge, with Edison perforations and a 1. 3 aspect ratio.

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.

* Camp Kilmer, a World War II era army post, was partially located in what is now Edison.

Thomas Edison installed the first successful three-wire electric lighting system in July 1883 at what was then known as the City Hotel.

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 ".

Thomas Edison ’ s lab books from the same period also indicate that he was thinking to coat patterns cellulose gum applied to linen paper with graphite powder to create what would have clearly been flexible circuits, though there is no evidence that it was reduced to practice.

In later years this kind of appreciation for what Manne could do was echoed by jazz notables like Louie Bellson, John Lewis, Ray Brown, Harry " Sweets " Edison, and numerous others who had worked with him at various times.

* Edison " Adroitly chose " problems that made use of what he already knew.

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.

A significant ore body was discovered in 1902 by Thomas Edison near what is now Falconbridge's Centennial Park.

His Chicago area holdings came to include what is now Federal Signal Corporation, Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas, and the Northern Indiana Public Service Company, and held shares of many more utilities.

From his experience as a touring projectionist Porter knew what pleased crowds, and he began by making trick films and comedies for Edison.

The U. S. National Park Service maintains a reproduction of the Black Maria, built in 1954 at what is now the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange.

Edison and his staff later relocated to West Orange, New Jersey in 1884 to what is now the Thomas Edison National Historical Park, after which the original buildings began to deteriorate.

In 1965 the mountain became the focus of a landmark environmental battle when local activists formed the Scenic Hudson Preservation Coalition ( today known as just Scenic Hudson ) to fight against plans by utility Consolidated Edison to cut away part of the mountain near the river and build a pump storage power generator complete with transmission lines across it for an ambitious power generating scheme which would also have entailed creating a reservoir in much of what is now Black Rock Forest.

Portions of what was to be two additional tracks for the Fourth Avenue subway south of this station were constructed by the then Brooklyn Edison Company initially for use as circuit breaker chambers.

Unlike other bands with a more ironic take on the lounge scene, Combustible Edison took the music seriously and strove to add to what its members saw as a canon of works, such as those by Esquivel, Henry Mancini, and Martin Denny.

** An unexploded pipe bomb is found in the Consolidated Edison office building ( only years later is the culprit, George Metesky, apprehended ).

Film was preserved at the Library of Congress with no sound ; wax cylinder recording later found at the Edison National Historic Site, and both were combined using digital methods to recreate the original film.

The company's first " Starr Records " were vertical cut disc records in the mid 1910s, based on Edison Records standard found in the Edison Disc Record.

During the Edison era of the early 1900s, many Jewish immigrants had found employment in the U. S. film industry.

Course descriptions found on the institution's now defunct website were copied verbatim from the course offerings of Thomas Edison State College.

In 1884, he decided his interests in the exploitation of electricity lay elsewhere, and he left Edison to found the Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Company.

Dixon with Kineto ” was found in the music room of the Edison laboratory.

Upon his arrival, Insull found that Chicago Edison was one of nearly 30 electric companies operating in Chicago, all competing for business.

In 2000, Fisher, an investor in Edison Schools ( a for-profit educational management organization ), was found to be funneling " soft money " into the campaigns of pro-Edison board members during San Francisco's school board election on whether to break contract with Edison.

In January and February 2008, explicit photos were found online involving Chan and Edison Chen.