At the time, Edison owned almost all the patents relevant to motion picture production and, in the East, movie producers acting independently of Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company were often sued or enjoined by Edison and his agents.

Edison subsequently sued the Volta Graphophone Company ( of which Tainter was part owner ) for patent infringement, but the case was settled by a compromise between the two.

It was clear that Edison originally intended to create a sound film system, which would not gain worldwide recognition until the release of " The Jazz Singer " in 1927.

Although the young firm thrived in the telegraph industry, it was not until the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, and the incandescent lamp by Thomas Alva Edison in 1879, that Western Electric began to gain stature as a large company.

In December 1908, Edison led the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company in an attempt to control the industry and shut out smaller producers.

This control slowed the expansion of incandescent lighting systems being developed by Thomas Edison's Edison General Electric Company.

Then, in 1912, they lent their support to filmmaker Carl Laemmle's Independent Motion Picture Company, which challenged the monopolistic control of the Edison Trust.

Twenty-eight hours after the accident began, William Scranton III, the lieutenant governor, appeared at a news briefing to say that Metropolitan Edison, the plant's owner, had assured the state that " everything is under control ".

John Hays Hammond Jr is regarded as the father of radio control due to experiments as an apprentice of Thomas Edison at the age of twelve.

* IEEE Edison Medal in 1972, For contributions to telecommunications, rocket guidance and spacecraft control, and for inspiring leadership in unmanned exploration of the solar system.

After they sold their business, the brothers lent their support to filmmaker Carl Laemmle's Independent Motion Picture Company, which challenged the monopolistic control of the Edison Trust ; the brothers served as distributors for Laemmle's films in Pittsburgh. for Carl Laemmle's Independent Fillm Company.

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In 1963, Pierce received the IEEE Edison Medal for " his pioneer work and leadership in satellite communications and for his stimulus and contributions to electron optics, travelling wave tube theory, and the control of noise in electron streams.

When The Walt Disney Company took control of the team in, it extensively renovated Anaheim Stadium, which was then renamed Edison International Field of Anaheim.

Several films in production circa 1907In December 1908, Edison led the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company in an attempt to control the industry and shut out smaller producers.

* Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, commonly known as The Illuminating Company, was a publicly traded operating company through 1986, until it merged with Toledo Edison to come under the control of Centerior.

* 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.

Edison, however, never attempted to patent these instruments on the other side of the Atlantic, since they relied so greatly on previous experiments and innovations from Britain and Europe.

* 1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.

The Edison Manufacturing Company's patent lawsuits against each of its domestic competitors crippled the American film industry, reducing American production mainly to two companies: Edison and Biograph, which used a different camera design.

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.

* 1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph ( the first movie ).

Bell had married Hubbard's daughter Mabel in 1879 while Hubbard was president of the Edison Speaking Phonograph Co., and his organization, which had purchased the Edison patent, was financially troubled because people did not want to buy a machine which seldom worked well and proved difficult for the average person to operate.

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.

In Britain, Joseph Swan had been able to obtain a patent on the incandescent lamp ; though Edison had already been making successful lamps for some time, his patent application was incompletely prepared and failed.

After protracted patent litigation, in 1892 a federal court ruled that Edison and not Emile Berliner was the inventor of the carbon microphone.

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 ".

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 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair, Thomas Edison introduced to the public two pioneering inventions based on this innovation ; the Kinetograph – the first practical moving picture camera – and the Kinetoscope.

* The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry, Reynold Nicholson, San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1996 ISBN 978-0-06-250959-8 ; Edison ( NJ ) and New York: Castle Books, 1997 ISBN 978-0-7858-0871-8.

Spacey also appeared in Edison, co-starring Morgan Freeman and Justin Timberlake ; Edison received a direct-to-video release on July 18, 2006.

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.

Recording with his tinfoil phonograph was too difficult to be practical, as the tinfoil tore easily, and even when the stylus was properly adjusted, its reproduction of sound was distorted and squeaky, and good for only a few playbacks ; nevertheless Edison had hit upon the secret of sound recording.

Rather, the advantages of the format are seen in the manufacturing process: discs can be stamped ; cylinders could not be until 1901-1902 when the gold moulding process was introduced by Edison.

( This was not the first attempt at a commercial long play record format, as Edison Records had marketed a microgroove vertically recorded disc with 20 minutes playing time per side the previous decade ; the Edison long-playing records were also a commercial failure.

On December 25, 1871, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell ( 1855 – 1884 ), whom he had met two months earlier ; she was an employee at one of his shops.

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 ".

The President of the Third French Republic, Jules Grévy, on the recommendation of his Minister of Foreign Affairs Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire and with the presentations of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Louis Cochery, designated Edison with the distinction of an ' Officer of the Legion of Honour ' ( Légion d ' honneur ) by decree on November 10, 1881 ; He also named a Chevalier in 1879, and a Commander in 1889.

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 ).

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.

In 1913, Edison introduced a new cylinder-based synch-sound apparatus known, just like his 1895 system, as the Kinetophone ; instead of films being shown to individual viewers in the Kinetoscope cabinet, they were now projected onto a screen.

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Their light bulb was fully effective and sufficiently promising ; they sold their to Thomas Edison.

As recounted in his 1925 Radio News autobiography, his initial attempts were rebuffed ; in his first application Fessenden wrote, " Do not know anything about electricity, but can learn pretty quick ," to which Edison replied, " Have enough men now who do not know about electricity.