In 1903, a shaken Edison said " Don't talk to me about X-rays, I am afraid of them.

Several months later, when Tesla had finished the work and asked to be paid, he said that Edison replied, " When you become a full-fledged American you will appreciate an American joke.

When Edison was a very old man and close to death, he said, in looking back, that the biggest mistake he had made was in not respecting Tesla or his work.

Edison was said to have been influenced by a popular fad diet in his last few years ; " the only liquid he consumed was a pint of milk every three hours ".

In 1930, the year before Edison died, Mina said in an interview about him, " correct eating is one of his greatest hobbies.

" 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.

Thomas Edison said that 46 frames per second was the minimum: " anything less will strain the eye.

Thomas Edison said, " I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun ".

In the earlier series, he is said to have had little formal education, the character originally modeled after such figures as Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss.

Smiths Creek is said to be where Thomas Edison was kicked off the train, because of his experiments.

In addition, the 1885 Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Tamaqua is said to have furnished the town with the nation's second incandescent municipal lighting system, a feat accomplished through the involvement of Thomas Edison.

He said that the automotive industry must find a substitute for gasoline, on which the elder Edison commented that the electric storage battery has already filled the bill.

" Thomas Edison is said to have asked when he learned that Moore had started to tinker with light-producing tubes of gas as a potential replacement for the incandescent bulb.

In August 2012, Southern California Edison announced plans to lay off one-third, or 730, of the plants employees ; the company said that the downsizing of the plant staff was planned more than two years ago.

In September 2012, Allison Macfarlane, the NRC Chairwoman, said that plant will be down for a prolonged period, and that the fuel from Unit 3 will be removed in September 2012, due to significant damage to the unit ; Southern California Edison stated, through its spokeswoman, that it is planning to send a restarting plan for NRC approval in October 2012.

Bob Steins, spokesman for Edison International, said “ the company will work to prepare detailed responses to council and community member questions and concerns ”.

: Kevin Burke is a very talented person who has extensive experience at Con Edison and in the utility industry ," said McGrath.

Thomas Edison paid remarkable attention to Murgaš's experiments and he is said to have informed G. Marconi of Murgaš's success.

In supporting the legislation, Thomas Edison testified before Congress in support of the legislation and said,

Neither Edison nor Westinghouse wanted their electrical system to be chosen because they feared that consumers would not want the same type of electricity used to kill criminals in their homes.

The appeal failed, partly due to the support of Thomas Edison for the state's position ( Edison was a backer of direct current power supplies, and it is speculated he wanted to use the publicity surrounding the electric chair to convince people that AC was dangerous ).

Edison could not use theory to solve this problem because, as Gorman and Carlson note, at the time " no one had yet developed a chemical theory that Edison could have used to identify a form of carbon with the electrical properties he wanted " ( Gorman and Carlson, 1990 ).

* 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.

Although attempts to create sync-sound motion pictures go back to the Edison lab in 1896, the technology became well-developed only in the early 1920s.

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

At first Blair would supply only 40 mm ( 1-9 / 16 in ) film stock that would be trimmed and perforated at the Edison lab to create 1-⅜ inch ( 34. 925 mm ) gauge filmstrips, then at some point in 1894 or 1895, Blair began sending stock to Edison that was cut exactly to specification.

Dickson and his team at the Edison lab also devised the Kinetograph, an innovative motion picture camera with rapid intermittent, or stop-and-go, film movement, to photograph movies for in-house experiments and, eventually, commercial Kinetoscope presentations.

The question of when the Edison lab began working on a filmstrip device is a matter of historical debate.

Charles Kayser of the Edison lab seated behind the Kinetograph.

Some scholars — in particular, Gordon Hendricks, in The Edison Motion Picture Myth ( 1961 )— have argued that the lab began working on a filmstrip machine much later and that Dickson and Edison misrepresented the date to establish priority for reasons of both patent protection and intellectual status.

In any event, though film historian David Robinson claims that " the cylinder experiments seem to have been carried on to the bitter end " ( meaning the final months of 1890 ), as far back as September 1889 — while Edison was still in Europe, but corresponding regularly with Dickson — the lab definitely placed its first order with the Eastman company for roll film.

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.

Earle Lewis Ovington ( December 20, 1879-July 21, 1936 ) was an American aeronautical engineer, aviator and inventor, and served as a lab assistant to Thomas Edison.

Beginning with Season 4, Zack Addy ( played by Eric Millegan ) was replaced by a succession of lab assistants: Wendell Bray ( Michael Grant Terry ), Colin Fisher ( Joel Moore ), Vincent Nigel-Murray ( Ryan Cartwright ), Arastoo Vaziri ( Pej Vahdat ), Clark Edison ( Eugene Byrd ) and Daisy Wick ( Carla Gallo ).

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

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 was called an atheist for those remarks, and although he did not allow himself to be drawn into the controversy publicly, he clarified himself in a private letter: " You have misunderstood the whole article, because you jumped to the conclusion that it denies the existence of God.

Several places have been named after Edison, most notably the town of Edison, New Jersey.

Three bridges around the United States have been named in his honor ( see Edison Bridge ).

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 ).

Innocenzo Manzetti, Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison, among others, have all been credited with pioneering work on the telephone.

Edison patented what he found, but he did not understand the underlying physics, nor did he have an inkling of the potential value of the discovery.

Some companies such as Consolidated Edison and American Superconductor have already begun commercial production of such systems.

Thomas Edison is claimed to have attended.

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 ).

Extreme temperatures in Edison have ranged from, recorded in February 1934, to, recorded in July 1936 and August 1949.

Edison was selected as one of the first communities by the New Jersey Department of Transportation to have a red light camera enforcement system operated by RedFlex Traffic Systems, Inc.

Other companies have warehouse operations within Edison.

Recent politics in Edison have concerned plans for zoning the township to facilitate the creation of " walkable " communities that will attract businesses, while still maintaining open spaces and parks and easy access to commuter transit.

Politics in Edison since the 2005 mayoral election have been polarized by an attempt by retail giant Walmart to open a store in central Edison near the junction of Interstate 287 and New Jersey Route 27.

Township officials have negotiated no housing on the site, to be called " Edison Towne Square.